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Yauyos Quechua
Huangáscar–Topará
Native to	Peru
Region	Chincha Province, Yauyos province
Native speakers	600 (2017 census)
Language family	Quechua Yauyos 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.

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.

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.

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