Cusco Quechua

Cusco Quechua
Qusqu runasimi
Native to	Peru
Native speakers	(1.7 million cited 1989–2002)[1]
Language family	Quechuan Quechua II Southern Quechua Cusco Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: quz – Cusco qve – Eastern Apurímac
Glottolog	cusc1236  (Cusco)[2] east2551  (Eastern Apurímac)[3]

Cusco Quechua (Quechua: Qusqu qhichwa simi) is a dialect of the Southern Quechua language, spoken in the city and the department of Cusco, Peru.

It is the Quechua variety used by the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua in Cusco, which also prefers the Spanish-based five-vowel alphabet.^[4] On the other hand, the official alphabet used by the ministry of education has only three vowels.^[5]

External links

• Simi Taqe Qheswa - Español - Qheswa (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur), Qosqo, Peru, 2006 (pdf 3,8 MB). Dictionary of the AMLQ: Cusco-Quechua - Spanish, Spanish - Cusco-Quechua.

References

1. Cusco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Eastern Apurímac at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cusco Quechua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eastern Apurímac Quechua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Nancy Hornberger & Kendall King, "Authenticity and Unification in Quechua Language Planning" Language, Culture and Curriculum 11 3 (1998): 390 - 410. http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=gse_pubs
5. Nonato Rufino Chuquimamani Valer. Yachakuqkunapa Simi Qullqa - Qusqu-Qullaw Qhichwa Simipi (Quechua-Quechua-Spanish dictionary). Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 2005.