Huaylas Quechua

Huaylas Quechua
Nunashimi , Qichwa
Native toPerú
Native speakers
170,000 (2017)[1]
Quechua
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3qwh
Glottologhuay1240
ELPHuaylas Quechua
Huaylas quechua in Ancash

Huaylas Quechua is an Ancash Quechua dialect spoken in the Callejón de Huaylas and in the western slope of the Cordillera Negra.

The main peculiarities of this variety are phonetic. In Quechua Ancash-Huailas a phenomenon of monophthongation of syllables with semiconsonants in coda is present: "aw" is often pronounced as [o:] elongated, likewise "ay" as [e:]. For example, 'awmi' is pronounced [o: mi], chawpi (center) [t͡ʃo: pi] and aywan (walks) as [e: wan]. In grammatical terms, Huaylas lacks the suffix -ski .

  1. ^ Huaylas Quechua at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon