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Aleksandr Natarov, Wed, 2022-03-16 05:09
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qvwDr. Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, a leading expert in modern Andean linguistics, who grew up speaking Wanca Quechua in Huancayo, Junín, Peru, says in his works on Wanca Quechua that the speakers of this variety refer to their language as 'kichwa.' This information may be found in his Gramática quechua: Junín-Huanca, Lima, 1976, p. 29, and in his Diccionario quechua: Junín-Huanca, Lima, 1976, p. 248. 'Runa Simi' and 'Wanca Nunashimi' are NOT autonyms of this language at all.
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We will add an autonym for Huaylla Wanca Quechua [qvw] in Peru for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.
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Dear Aleksandr,
Thank you for this information on the autonym for Huaylla Wanca Quechua [qvw] in Peru.
Best regards,
Charles Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
Dear Charles,
I have a contribution to make on the number of speakers of Jauja Wanca Quechua [qxw] but seem to have lost the right to do so.
The 2017 census in Peru registered a much smaller number of Quechua speakers in the province where the language is spoken than the one that Ethnologue currently gives from the 1962 census. Also, as Dr. Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino shows in his research on Wanca Quechua, not all of the province of Jauja speaks this language: eight (8) districts in the southeast of the province speak Huaylla Wanca Quechua [qvw]. Quechua speakers in those eight districts numbered 522 in 2017. Thus, if we detract 522 from the figure of 3,696 Quechua speakers in the province of Jauja registered by the 2017 census, we get 3,174 Quechua speakers in the rest of Jauja province. I would estimate the 2017 speaker population of this language under 5,000.
Please advise on my access status, too. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Aleksandr Natarov (a.n.natarov@gmail.com)
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