Yauyos Quechua
| Yauyos Quechua | |
|---|---|
| Huangáscar–Topará | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Chincha Province, Yauyos province |
Native speakers | 600 (2017 census)[1] |
Quechua
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qux |
| Glottolog | yauy1235 Yauyos |
| ELP | Yauyos Quechua |
 Yauyos Quechua and neighboring varieties | |
 Quechua of Yauyos is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Yauyos Quechua is a moribund 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 25, 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 | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | ʈ ⟨tr⟩ | c ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | q ⟨q⟩ | |||
| voiced | (b) ⟨b⟩ | (d) ⟨d⟩ | (g) ⟨g⟩ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) ⟨f⟩ | s ⟨s⟩ | ʃ ⟨sh⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | |||||
| voiced | (v) ⟨v⟩ | |||||||||
| 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 found in loanwords from Spanish.
References
- ↑ Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.
- ↑ Shimelman, Aviva (10 March 2017). A Grammar Of Yauyos Quechua. 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 Archived 11 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Aviva Shimelman)
- Yauyos–Castellano Archived 11 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Aviva Shimelman)
External links
- Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation Archived 5 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 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 Archived 9 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine on AILLA (registration necessary)
- Huamán, Hipólita Santos; Rivera, Oscar Vicente; Bertet, Denis (2018), Yauyos Quechua Linguistic Materials, doi:10.7297/X2610XHN, retrieved 11 January 2025