Quichua, Chimborazo Highland

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A language of Ecuador

ISO 639-3
qug
Alternate Names
Central Highland Quichua, Chimborazo Quichua, Ecuadorean Quechua, Kichwa, Kichwa de la Sierra, Quichua Serrano Central, Quichua de Chimborazo, Quichua de la Sierra, Quichua de la Sierra Chimborazo
Autonym
Kichwa Shimi, Runa Shimi
User Population

800,000 (2010 UBS). Total Quichua in Ecuador: 408,000 (Crevels 2012). High percentage of monolinguals.

Location

Bolivar, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi provinces; Tungurahua province: west of Ambato; central highlands.

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Language Status

5* (Developing). Recognized language (2008, Constitution, Article 2).

Classification
Quechuan, Peripheral Quechua, Chinchay, Northern Chinchay
Dialects

A member of macrolanguage Quechua [que].

Typology

SOV.

Language Development

Taught as subject in some primary schools. Literature. Dictionary. Grammar. Texts. Bible: 1989–2010.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Quichua, Chimborazo Highland
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Traditional religion, Christian.