Cusco-Collao Quechua

Cusco-Collao Quechua
Qusqu-Qullaw
Spoken in Peru
Ethnicity Quechuas, Kollas
Native speakers 4,000,000  (date missing)
Language family
Quechuan
Dialects
North Bolivian Quechua
Language 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.

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