Quechuas Lamistas

The Quechuas Lamistas ( Spanish ; Quechua : Llakwash ) are an ethnic group of the Quechua in the province of Lamas in the Peruvian department of San Martín . Their language is Lamas Quechua , which is currently being increasingly displaced by Spanish .

The Quechuas Lamistas traditionally look to the descendants of defeated Chanka who fled from the Inca into the jungle. However, they are probably the result of a merging process of several indigenous peoples in the region, referred to by the Spaniards as Motilones , during the Spanish colonial era .

According to human genetic studies by Sandoval et al. a. (2016), in which genes of the Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA were examined, there is the strongest genetic relationship of the Quechua Lamistas with various neighboring ethnic groups, while nothing indicates a direct relationship with the Chanka-Quechua-speaking indigenous people of the Andes of Apurimac , Ayacucho and Huancavelica , which, according to these investigations, are genetically closely related to one another.

Web links

• Quechua Lamista - Perú ecológico (Spanish)
• Quechua de San Martín (Grupo II B) - Representation of the ethnic group by SIL International (Spanish)
• JR Sandoval, DR Lacerda, O. Acosta O, WS Jota, P. Robles-Ruiz, A. Salazar-Granara, PP Vieira, C. Paz-Y-Miño, R. Fujita, FR Santos, Genographic Project Consortium (2016) : The Genetic History of Peruvian Quechua-Lamistas and Chankas: Uniparental DNA Patterns among Autochthonous Amazonian and Andean Populations . Annals of Human Genetics 80 (2), pp. 88-101. doi: 10.1111 / ahg.12145 . PMID 26879156 .