South Bolivian Quechua
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South Bolivian Quechua | ||
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Spoken in: | Argentina, Bolivia | |
Total speakers: | 3,637,500 | |
Language family: | South Bolivian Quechua |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | quh | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | quh | |
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South Bolivian Quechua is a variety of Quechua, belonging to Qusqu-Qullaw Quechua, part of the Southern Quechua branch of Quechua II. It is also spoken in Argentina. It is also known as Central Bolivian Quechua or Quechua Boliviano (Spanish for Bolivian Quechua). There are 2,782,500 speakers in Bolivia and 855,000 in Argentina.
[edit] Dialects
- Sucre dialect
- Cochabamba dialect
- Oruro dialect
- Potosí dialect
- Chuquisaca dialect
- Northwest Jujuy dialect
Official Languages of South America |
Aymara (Peru, Bolivia) · Dutch (Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Suriname) · English (Falkland Islands, Guyana) |