Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a language cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Yauyos and Chincha districts of Peru. There are numerous dialects: in Yauyos, San Pedro de Huacarpana, Apurí, Madean-Viñac (Madeán), Azángaro-Huangáscar-Chocos (Huangáscar), Cacra-Hongos, Tomás-Alis (Alis), Huancaya-Vitis, Laraos, with similar diversity in Chincha.
The Tana-Lincha (Lincha) dialect included by Ethnologue 16, however, is part of Cajamarca-Lambayeque Quechua.[2]
Phonology
Yauyos Quechua omits several distinctions present in other Quechuan languages. The orthography used below is the one used in A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua.[3]
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p ⟨p⟩
(b) ⟨b⟩ |
t ⟨t⟩
(d) ⟨d⟩ |
ʈ ⟨tr⟩ | c ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨k⟩
(g) ⟨g⟩ |
q ⟨q⟩ | |||
| Fricative | (f) ⟨f⟩
(v) ⟨v⟩ |
s ⟨s⟩ | ʃ ⟨sh⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | |||||
| Nasal | m ⟨m⟩ | n ⟨n⟩ | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ | ||||||
| Approximant | β ⟨w⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | |||||||
| Lateral | l ⟨l⟩ | ʎ ⟨ll⟩ | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ | ||||||||
| Trill | (r) ⟨rr⟩ |
Sounds in parentheses are only in loanwords from Spanish.
References
- ^ Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Chincha Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.
- ^ Shimelman, Aviva (10 March 2017). A Grammar Of Yauyos Quechua. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355.
Bibliography
- Shimelman, Aviva (2017). A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua. Studies in Diversity Linguistics 9. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355. ISBN 978-3-946234-21-0.
- Bertet, Denis (2013). Éléments de description du parler quechua d'Hongos (Yauyos, Lima, Pérou) : morphologie nominale et verbale [with texts and a lexicon] (MA thesis).
Online Dictionaries
- Yauyos–English (Aviva Shimelman)
- Yauyos–Castellano (Aviva Shimelman)
External links
- Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
- Taylor, Gerald (1990). "Textes quechua de Laraos (Yauyos)". Journal de la société des américanistes. 76 (1): 121–154. doi:10.3406/jsa.1990.1361.
- Texts in Yauyos Quechua at IMDI / ISLE Metadata Initiative, collected by Aviva Shimelman (registration necessary)
- Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelman on AILLA (registration necessary)
- Yauyos Quechua Linguistic Materials, SCL 2018–15, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2610XHN
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