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Quechua, Arequipa-La Unión

A language of Peru

ISO 639-3: qxu

Population	18,600 (2000). 10,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 32,000.
Region	Arequipa Department, La Unión Province, Cotahuasi District; Apurímac Department, Antabamba Province.
Language map	Peru, reference number 8
Alternate names	Arequipa Quechua, Cotahuasi Quechua
Dialects	Cotahuasi, Northern Arequipa, Highland Arequipa, Antabamba (Apurímac). More similar linguistically to Cusco than to Ayacucho. Very similar to Eastern Apurímac [qve].
Classification	Quechuan, Quechua II, C A member of macrolanguage Quechua [que] (Peru).
Language use	Official language. Vigorous. Used in some schools. Some families switching to Spanish. Other language speakers use Quechua to talk to monolinguals. Used for administration, commerce, labor relations, religious services. All ages. Considered inferior to Spanish. Fluent Spanish speakers usually leave the area. Those who return do not like Quechua speakers to use Spanish loans. Also use Spanish. Many monolinguals. Cusco Quechua used in schools.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 30%. 600 readers, 200 can write. Taught in primary schools. Radio programs. Videos. Dictionary. Bible portions: 1993.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Agriculturalists. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BUCKINGHAM, Andrew, author. 1992. "Patrones menores de oración en el quechua de Arequipa."  

BUCKINGHAM, Andrew, author. 1996. "Usos del tiempo presente en los textos orales narrativos."  

KINDBERG, Mary Lynn, author. 1989. "El istimakuy: Una práctica social importante entre los quechua de Caylloma, Arequipa."  

KINDBERG, Mary Lynn, author. 1989. "Oraciones relativas y correlativas con el pronombre chay en el quechua de Cailloma (Arequipa)."

WEBER, David J., editor. 1987. Juan del Oso.  

Vernacular Publications

¿Imataq? ¿haykʼataq? libro 3. 1997.  

¿Imataq? ¿haykʼataq?, libro 2. 1997.  

¿Imataq? ¿Haykʼataq?. 1996.  

Atoqmanta willakuykuna. 1996.  

Atuqmanta tawa willakuykuna. 1998.  

En las punas (Alturaspi tiyaymanta). 1993.

Guia para escribir el Quechua de Arequipa. 1987.  

Hatun willay derechonchiskunamanta llapan runapaq. 1988.  

Huk kuti. 1987.  

Llaqtanman kutimuq corneteromanta. 1998.  

Pequeño diccionario de palabras útiles: El quechua de La Unión. 1987.

Rimayninchis 1987. 1987.  

Runasimita Ñawinchasun. 1999.  

Runasimita qillqasun. 1999.  

Yachaspa kusikunchis. 1997.  

Yachaysapa asnomanta. 1996.