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Quichua, Tena Lowland

A language of Ecuador

ISO 639-3: quw

Population	20,000 (1976 SIL).
Region	Eastern jungle, Tena, Arajuno, Shandia area.
Language map	Ecuador, reference number 19
Alternate names	Yumbo, Napo Kichwa
Dialects	Napo [qvo], Pastaza [qvz] and Tena [quw] Quichua understand each other’s spoken language, but not written texts.
Classification	Quechuan, Quechua II, B A member of macrolanguage Quechua [que] (Peru).
Language use	Also use Spanish.
Language development	NT: 1972.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ORR, Carolyn, author. 1991. Vamos a aprender quichua de Tena.  

ORR, Carolyn, author. 1992. Runa shimi gramática.  

ORR, Carolyn; WRISLEY, Betsy, authors. 1965. Vocabulario quichua del Oriente del Ecuador.

ORR, Carolyn; WRISLEY, Betsy, authors. 1981. Vocabulario quichua del Oriente.  

WATERS, William, author. 1989. "Comparación preliminar entre las culturas quechua del Napo y del Pastaza."  

WATERS, William, author. 1996. "Una breve comparación entre los rasgos gramaticales del quichua Ecuatoriano de Napo y el quechua Peruano del Pastaza."  

Vernacular Publications

Cocinanamanda yachana. 1982.

Cuillurguna. 1971.  

Ñucanchi avionbi pasiashca. 1977.