Quechua, Puno

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A language of Peru

ISO 639-3
qxp
Alternate Names
Quechua Collao, Quechua Qollaw
Autonym
Runa Simi
User Population

500,000. 100,000 monolinguals (2002).

Location

Arequipa and Cusco regions: small areas; Moquegua region: highland area; Puno region.

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Language Status

4 (Educational).

Classification
Quechuan, Peripheral Quechua, Chinchay, Southern Chinchay, Southern Peruvian Quechua
Dialects

North Bolivian Quechua, Cailloma Quechua. Mutually intelligible of Cusco Quechua [quz] and North Bolivian Quechua [qul], possibly sufficient to understand complex and abstract discourse. A member of macrolanguage Quechua [que].

Typology

SOV.

Language Use

Used by all. Most also use Spanish [spa]. People in towns and cities mostly want their children to speak Spanish.

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 71% (official figure for rural areas). Taught as subject in primary schools. Literature. Radio. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1947–1971.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Quechua, Puno
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Differs from Cusco Quechua [quz] in borrowing of lexicon and morphology from Aymara [ayr]. Christian, traditional religion.