Quechua family

Ayacucho Quechua

1600 CE – today Living

Ayacucho Quechua (1600 CE – today) is a living Quechua language. Lineage: Proto-Quechua → Proto-Quechua II → Ayacucho Quechua.

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ISO 639-3
quy
Glottocode
ayac1239

Southern Quechua (Quechua IIC) variety of the Ayacucho region (Chanka). Mutually intelligible with Cusco Quechua.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Quechuac. 0 CE – 600 CE
  2. Proto-Quechua IIc. 600 CE – 1450 CE
  3. Ayacucho Quechua1600 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Quechua II.

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