Distribution of Quechua sub-groups. Kichwa is shown in light blue (II B).
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Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (Inga), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers.
The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo, Imbabura and Cañar Highland Quechua, with most of the speakers. Kichwa belongs to the Northern Quechua group of Quechua II, according to linguist Alfredo Torero.
^Inga at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Jungle Inga at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Napo Lowland at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Southern Pastaza at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Calderón Highland at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Cañar Highland at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (Inga), as well...
with language use, as most of the Lagunas members speak Spanish exclusively and only know a few words in Kichwa. The prospects for Kichwalanguage revitalization...
Amazonian Kichwas are a grouping of indigenous Kichwa peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon, with minor groups across the borders of Colombia and Peru. Amazonian...
Inga Kichwa is a dialect of Kichwa spoken in the Colombian Putumayo region by the Inga people. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the Sibundoy...
Northern Quechua or Quechua II B, spoken in Ecuador (Kichwa), northern Peru, and Colombia (Inga Kichwa) The most widely spoken varieties in this group are...
for example in صِصِ swiswi (standard sisi) 'we' and كِطَ kit̠wa (standard kichwa) 'head'. Particles such as ya, na, si, kwa, ni were joined to the following...
indigenous Ecuadorean Kichwas. Kichwa Hatari was founded in 2014 in New York, to broadcast from New York City in Kichwa. The Kichwalanguage is a regional variation...
is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa. The Quechua word for a Quechua...
Ecuador, Huayna Capac imposed upon the tribes the use of the Quechua (or Kichwa) language, lingua franca of the Inca and still widely spoken in Ecuador. The...
The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
Ecuador's official language; Spanish, Kichwa and Shuar are official languages for intercultural ties. The other ancestral languages are in official use...
(roughly translated to "half language" or "in-between language") is a mixed language with Spanish vocabulary and Kichwa grammar, most conspicuously in...
Ecuador, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level while the Kichwa (Northern Quechua) and Shuar languages hold co-official status in selected...
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Qud or QUD may refer to: Kichwalanguage, a Quechuan language with ISO 639-3 code qud. Qud Tolmush, a village in the Ardabil...
state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language: one designated as having a unique legal...
United States, such as Kichwa Hatari, a radio station in New York City that translates information from Spanish into the Kichwalanguage for broadcast to Ecuadorian...
community development." The name Jatun Sacha is derived from the local Kichwalanguage, variably translated as "big forest" or "big jungle". The Jatun Sacha...
spoken by more than 30,000 people: Spanish monolingual (5 million speakers), Kichwa (2.4 million speakers), Aymara (1.5 million), Low German (Plattdeutsch)...
ISSN 1866-802X. S2CID 201365188. Wroblewski, Michael (2021). Remaking Kichwa : language and indigenous pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador. London. ISBN 978-1-350-11556-9...
Amazon Basin, named (in Wao-Terero, the Huaorani language) after one of their members, Tagae. Nearby Kichwa communities sometimes refer to them as Awashiri...
in the Kichwalanguage. His debut collection Mutsuktsurini (1988) was one of the first books to be written and published exclusively in Kichwa. He has...
people also speak Spanish, Shuar, and Kichwa along with their native language, Shiwiar. Shuar belongs to the same language family as Shiwiar – Jivaroan. Although...
dictionary of modern written Arabic. Internet Archive. Ithaca, N.Y. : Spoken Language Services. ISBN 978-0-87950-001-6. "Floating agricultural systems | Climate...
of the Kichwa nation most of whom live in Saraguro Canton in the Loja Province of Ecuador. Although most now speak Spanish, Runashimi or Kichwa, a Quechua...
sciences. She was unusual in being a teacher who spoke both Spanish and Kichwalanguage, and began to organise the local communities. She established the Federación...
vocabulary items for Munichi. Kichwa-Lamista people Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American...
Peruvian Quechua is similar in pronunciation to some of the Ecuadorian Kichwalanguage varieties. It is much more conservative, however, in its morphology...
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