North Junín Quechua

North Junín Quechua
Native toPeru
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1998)[1]
Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
qvn – North Junín
qvl – Cajatambo North Lima
Glottolognort2980

North Junín Quechua is a language of Quechua spoken throughout the Andean highlands of the Northern Junín and Tarma provinces of Peru. Dialects under North Junín Quechua include Tarma Quechua spoken in Tarma Province and the subdialect San Pedros de Cajas Quechua. North Junín Quechua belongs to the Yaru Quechua dialect cluster under the Quechua I dialects. Initially spoken by Huancas and neighboring native people, the Junín dialect was absorbed by the Inca Empire in 1460 but relatively unaffected by the Southern Cuzco dialect. The Inca Empire had to defeat stiff resistance by the Huanca people.

Currently listed as an endangered language, the San Pedros de Cajas dialect of Quechua has been under study and found in use mainly at home with Spanish being used in schools. A survey conducted in a secondary school resulted in only one out of fifty students answering that they used Quechua at home.[2]

Willem Adelaar has conducted extensive work on Quechua dialects and has published findings on the Tarma dialect. Recent work by linguists have focused on tracing the origin of Quechua by comparing the reconstructed language, Proto- Quechua, with Proto-Aymaran. There exist arguments on both sides as Paul Heggarty argues against a distant relationship. Similarities have been found to span both proto-languages from reconstruction of a variety of Quechua dialects; commonalities include apa- meaning "to carry," picqa meaning "five," urqu meaning "mountain," and qipa meaning "before (space), after (time)," all words in Junín Quechua.[3] Qipa exemplifies relative temporal marking rather than tense marking.

Phonology

For an inventory of phonemes of both Tarma and San Juan de Cajas dialects see [4] and [5] respectively. The de-aspiration of the phoneme tʃ, i.e. tʃ' -> tʃ, has been noted.[6] In addition, stops do not have aspiration or glottalization, but can be voiced; as discussed earlier, vowel length can be phonemic.[7]

The Tarma dialect has 3 vowels: /a, i, u/. All vowels have long equivalents, and North Junin displays contrastive vowel length.[8] The consonant chart is from the Tarma dialect.

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palato-alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar
Stop voiceless p t k
voiced b g
Affricate t͡ʃ tʂ
Fricative s ʃ x
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Approximant plain j w
lateral ʎ
Flap

The variety of Tarma spoken in San Pedro de Cajas lacks a voiced bilabial stop /b/ and adds a voiceless uvular fricative /χ/.[5]

Morphology

An agglutinating language, Quechua has been analyzed by sub-grouping its copious morphemes together, particularly its suffixes. A feature of Junín Quechua and Quechua I, which includes North Junín dialect, belongs to characterization of non-final suffixes.

The suffixes of verbs in basically every Quechua I dialect subdivides into final and non-final suffixes. North Junín Quechua holds a division of non-final verb suffixes into the left and right block. The right block, usually inflectional, participates in similar fashion to final verb suffixes in allowing long vowels. The left block merges (and co-lexicalizes) with verb roots such that its non-final verb suffixes can be both derivational and inflectional.[9] A prescribed order affects the right-block suffixes such that, for a causative suffix, morphemes occur in a specified order regardless of their relationship to the subject.[9] Vowel length can change meaning in ways including but not limited to marking first person, marking causation, and marking pronouns.[10] These relationships form a structural explanation for Tarma Quechua's agglutinating script.

Tarma Quechua possesses some unique changes to the directional morphemes that denote "Up," "Down," "In," and "Out." The "Down" morpheme "rpu" exists as a left hand block suffix and has productively led to "lpu" meaning overcoming resistance in addition to simplification to "ru."[9]

Nominalization

Nominalized clauses can be case marked entirely. The Huanca dialect of North Junin Quechua allows case marking of nominal clauses as the genitive case, restricted in most other Quechua dialects.[11] Furthermore, the nominal clauses only mark relative temporal differences, i.e. no tense marking.[11]

References

  1. ↑ North Junín at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Cajatambo North Lima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Fumi, Madeline (2015). Death, Maintenance and Revitalization of the Quechua Language in Peru: A Case Study with a Focus on San Pedro de Cajas (B.A.). University of Mississippi.
  3. ↑ Emlen, Nicholas (April 2017). "Perspectives On The Quechua–Aymara Contact Relationship And The Lexicon And Phonology Of Pre-Proto-Aymara". International Journal of American Linguistics. 83 (2): 307–340. doi:10.1086/689911. hdl:1887/71538.
  4. ↑ Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of North Junín Quechua (Tarma dialect)". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
  5. 1 2 Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of North Junín Quechua (San Pedro de Cajas dialect)". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
  6. ↑ Campbell, Lyle (2014). "5". Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (3 ed.). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. p. 197.
  7. ↑ Gómez, Gale G.; van der Voort, Hein (2013). Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America. Leiden, NL: Brill. p. 42.
  8. ↑ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  9. 1 2 3 Adelaar, Willem (2006). "The vicissitudes of directional affixes in Tarma (Northern Junín) Quechua" (PDF). What's in a Verb? Studies in the Verbal Morphology of the Languages of the Americas. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  10. ↑ Adelaar, Willem (2004). "3". The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 157–158.
  11. 1 2 Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella (May 2011). "Nominalization and case assignment in Quechua". Lingua. 121 (7): 1225–1251. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.01.010.
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