Quechua family

Central Quechua

c. 600 CE – today Living

Central Quechua (c. 600 CE – today) is a living Quechua language. Lineage: Proto-Quechua → Central Quechua.

See Central Quechua on the interactive map

Quechua I (Waywash): a set of divergent varieties in the central Peruvian highlands (Ancash, Huánuco, Junín), shown here as one node.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Quechuac. 0 CE – 600 CE
  2. Central Quechuac. 600 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Quechua.

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