Yaru Quechua

Yaru Quechua is a dialect cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Peruvian provinces of Pasco and Daniel Alcides Carrión and neighboring areas in northern Junín and Lima department.

Yaru Quechua
Kichwa
Native toPerú
Native speakers
(90,000 cited 1993–2017)[1]
plus 20,000 Chaupihuaranga (1972 census, decreasing)[1]
Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
qva – Ambo-Pasco
qur – Chaupihuaranga / Yanahuanca
qxt – Santa Ana de Tusi Pasco
qvn – North Junín
Glottologyaru1256
paca1245  Pacaraos
ELPYaru Quechua

The branch of Yaru which has been best described is Tarma Quechua, by Willem F. H. Adelaar in his 1977 Tarma Quechua: Grammar, texts, dictionary. Tarma Quechua is spoken in the districts of Tarma, Huaricolca, Acobamba, La Unión Leticia, Palca, Palcamayo, Tapo, Huasahuasi and San Pedro de Cajas in Junín region, Peru.[2] (See North Junín Quechua.)

References
  1. Ambo-Pasco at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) closed access
    Chaupihuaranga / Yanahuanca at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) closed access
    Santa Ana de Tusi Pasco at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) closed access
    North Junín at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) closed access
  2. Adelaar, Willem F. H. (1977). Tarma Quechua: Grammar, texts, dictionary. Amsterdam: Peter de Ridder. p. 20.

Bibliography
  • Adelaar, Willem. The Languages of the Andes. With the collaboration of P.C. Muysken. Cambridge language survey. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-36831-5


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