Inga-Kichwa

Inga-Kichwa (Inka Kichwa, Runashimi)
Spoken in	Colombia
speaker	25,000
Linguistic classification	Quechua language family Wampuy (Quechua II) Chinchay (Quechua II b) Kichwa from Ecuador and Colombia Inga-Kichwa
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	qu (Quechua overall)
ISO 639 -2	que (Quechua overall)
ISO 639-3	inb (highlands), inj (lowlands)

The Inga-Kichwa (in standard Kichwa : Inka Kichwa ) is the language belonging to the Ecuadorian Kichwa of the Inga living in Colombia .

Like the Inga ethnic group , their dialect is also divided into two variants: Highland Inga , spoken by around 16,000 people, especially in the Sibundoy Valley, and lowland Inga along the Putumayo River (Valsayacu or Walsayaku) with around 9,000 speakers.

Linguistically, the Inga-Kichwa shares all essential developments in the Ecuadorian Kichwa. As with the Kichwa dialects in the lowlands of Ecuador, initial [h] is silent, as is mostly final [n] and [k]. Beyond that, however, no distinction is made between [š] and [s], which coincide with [s].

Web links

• Roger Parks: The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua) . (PDF; 4.30 MB)