Quechua family
Kichwa
1500 CE – today Living
Kichwa (1500 CE – today) is a living Quechua language. Lineage: Proto-Quechua → Proto-Quechua II → Kichwa.
See Kichwa on the interactive mapQuechua IIB varieties of Ecuador and Colombia. They probably spread north with the Inca expansion and colonial missions.
Lineage
- Proto-Quechuac. 0 CE – 600 CE
- Proto-Quechua IIc. 600 CE – 1450 CE
- Kichwa1500 CE – today
Sister languages 3
Also descended from Proto-Quechua II.