Yunkay

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Yunkay (after Yunka or Yunga , a low altitude zone on both sides of the Andes and their inhabitants) or Quechua II a (branch of the Wampuy ) is the linguistic name (after Alfredo Torero ) for a group of variants of the Quechua language family with a small number of speakers in the north Peru and in the Peruvian department of Lima ( Yauyos-Quechua ).

The dialects of Yunkay-Quechua have largely retained the old Quechua sound including the retroflex [ĉ].

The Yunkay of northern Peru - Cajamarca-Quechua and Inkawasi-Kañaris - have a number of phonetic peculiarities in common with the Chinchay (Quechua II b): ll is pronounced as in Argentina (j in French Journal), mp as [mb], nt as [nd ] and nk like [ng]. However, the voiced plosives b, d, g are not phonemic and are therefore - also in alignment with other Quechua variants - in modern Quechua spelling as p, t, k. The ch coincides with the ll before n through assimilation in pronunciation . As in the Peruvian Chinchay-Quechua, the initial [h] is silent. The similarities also predominate in grammatical terms, for example in the plural form of the verb by adding -llapa or -sapa .

The vocabulary also has a lot in common with Quechua I ( Waywash ).

literature

  • Alfredo Torero : Los dialectos quechuas . Anales Científicos de la Universidad Agraria , 2, pp. 446-478. Lima, 1964.
  • Alfredo Torero: La familia lingüística quechua . En: Pottier, Bernard (ed.) América Latina en sus lenguas indígenas . Caracas; Monte Avila Editores, CAS 61-92., 1983.
  • Alfredo Torero: Los sibilantes del quechua yunga y del castellano en el siglo XVI . En: Calvo Pérez, Julio (ed) Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias I , Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, Departamento de teoría de los lenguajes, pp. 241-254, 1994.