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Preferred term

quyAyacucho Quechua  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka, after the former Chancas local tribe that dominated the area before Incan conquest) is one dialect of the Quechua language, spoken in the Ayacucho region of Peru, as well as by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima. With roughly a million speakers, it is one of the largest dialects of the language along with Cusco Quechua. The literary standard of Southern Quechua is based on these two closely related Quechua varieties.

Entry terms

  • Quechua, Ayacucho

ISO 639-3 code

  • quy

Notation

  • quy

In other languages

  • Chanka-Quechua

    German

  • Quechua ayacuchano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/quy

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