Cañar Highland Quichua

Cañar Highland Quichua
Native toEcuador
RegionCañar Province
EthnicityKichwa people, Cañari
Quechuan
Language codes
ISO 639-3qxr
Glottologcana1262
Linguasphere84-FAA-ce

Cañar Highland Quichua is a variety of the Kichwa language spoken in the Cañar Province of Ecuador.[1] The language has received significant influence in its vocabulary from the long-extinct and poorly known Cañari language.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Cañar-Azuay-South Chimborazo Highland Quichua". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Howard, Rosaleen (2010-01-01), "7. 'Why do they steal our phonemes?' Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador)", in Carlin, Eithne B.; van de Kerke, Simon (eds.), Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas, BRILL, pp. 123–145, doi:10.1163/9789047427087_008, ISBN 978-90-474-2708-7, retrieved 2026-06-22
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