Southern Quechua

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/southern-quechua

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1. What is the number of speakers?Approximately 6.9 million speakers, making it the most widely spoken Quechua variety
2. What is the linguistic classification?Corresponds to Alfredo Torero's 'Quechua IIc' classification within the Quechua language family
3. How many people speak Southern Quechua?About 6.9 million people speak Southern Quechua. That makes it one of the biggest indigenous languages in the Americas.
4. Where is Southern Quechua spoken?Southern Quechua is spoken in southern Peru, especially in Ayacucho, Cusco, and Puno. It is also spoken by most people in Bolivia and in northwestern Argentina.

Mutually Intelligible: Describes language varieties that speakers can understand without significant difficulty.
Linguistic Classification: The system used by linguists to group languages based on shared characteristics and historical relationships.
Indigenous Language Family: A group of related languages spoken by the original inhabitants of a region, sharing a common ancestor.