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Cusco-Collao Quechua Qusqu-Qullaw Spoken in Peru Ethnicity Quechuas, Kollas Native speakers 4,000,000 (date missing) Language family Quechuan- Quechua II
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Dialects Cuzco QuechuaNorth Bolivian QuechuaLanguage codes ISO 639-3 qxp Qusqu-Qullaw (Spanish also Cuzco-Collao) is a variety of the Quechua language family, spoken throughout southern Peru (departments of Cusco and Puno), Bolivia, and northern Argentina, including the prestige dialect of Cusco Quechua. With about four million speakers, it is one of the largest dialects, along with Ayacucho Quechua. The literary standard of Southern Quechua is based on these two closely related Quechua varieties.
References
- Antonio Cusihuamán (1976): Diccionario Quechua Cuzco-Collao [- Castellano y vice versa]. Ministerio de educación del Perú
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Languages of Bolivia
- Languages of Peru
- Southern Quechua
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
- Quechua II
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