Quechua family

Cusco Quechua

1600 CE – today Living

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

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ISO 639-3
quz
Glottocode
cusc1236

Southern Quechua (Quechua IIC) variety of the Cusco region. The modern prestige variety, historically closest to the colonial written standard.

Lineage

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

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Quechua II.

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