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Cuzco Quechua
Qusqu runasimi
Native to	Peru
Native speakers	(c. 1.5 million cited 1989–2002)
Language family	Quechuan Quechua II Southern Quechua Cuzco Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `quz` – Cusco `qve` – Eastern Apurímac
Glottolog	`cusc1236` Cusco `east2551` Eastern Apurímac
ELP	Cuzco Quechua

Cuzco Quechua (Quechua: Qusqu qhichwa simi) is a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Cuzco and the Cuzco Region of Peru.

It is the Quechua variety used by the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua in Cuzco, which also prefers the Spanish-based five-vowel alphabet. On the other hand, the official alphabet used by the ministry of education has only three vowels.

Phonology

There is debate about whether Cuzco Quechua has five /a, e, i, o, u/ or three vowel phonemes: /a, ɪ, ʊ/. While historically Proto-Quechua clearly had just three vowel phonemes /*a, *ɪ, *ʊ/, and although some other Quechua varieties have an increased number of vowels as a result of phonological vowel length emergence or of monophthongization, the current debate about the Cuzco variety seems to be not phonological in matter but just orthographic.

Phoneme	3-vowel alphabet	5-vowel alphabet
/a/	a	a
/ɪ/	i	i , e
/ʊ/	u	u , o

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	plain	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	q
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	t͡ʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡ʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
Fricative			s	ʃ	x	χ	h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Approximant	plain			j	w
Approximant	lateral		l	ʎ
Flap			ɾ

Grammar

Pronouns

	Cuzco Quechua	Northern Quechua	Ancash Quechua	English
1º	noqa/ñoqa	ñuka	nuqa	I
2º	qan	kan	qam	you
3º	pay	pay	pay	he, she, it
4º	noqanchis/ñoqanchis	ñukanchik (ñukapash kanpash)	nuqantsik	we (inclusive)
5º	noqayku/ñoqayku	ñukanchik (shinapash mana kan/kikin)	nuqakuna	we (exclusive)
6º	qankuna	qamkuna	qamkuna	you (plural)
7º	paykuna	paykuna	paykuna	they

Nouns

Examples using the word *wasi* 'house'
Function		Suffix	Example	Translation
Suffix indicating number	Plural	-kuna	wasikuna	houses
Possessive suffix	1st person singular	-y	wasiy	my house
	2nd person singular	-yki	wasiyki	your house
	3rd person singular	-n	wasin	his/her/its house
	1st person plural (incl.)	-nchis	wasinchis	our house (incl.)
	1st person plural (excl.)	-y-ku	wasiyku	our house (excl.)
	2nd person plural	-yki-chis	wasiykichis	your (pl.) house
	3rd person plural	-n-ku	wasinku	their house
Suffixes indicating case	nominative	–	wasi	the house (subj.)
	accusative	-(k)ta	wasita	the house (obj.)
	instrumental	-wan	wasiwan	with the house, and the house
	abessive	-naq	wasinaq	without the house
	dative	-paq	wasipaq	to the house
	genitive	-q/-pa	wasiq	of the house
	causative	-rayku	wasirayku	because of the house
	benefactive	-paq	wasipaq	for the house
	locative	-pi	wasipi	at the house
	directional	-man	wasiman	towards the house
	inclusive	-piwan, puwan	wasipiwan, wasipuwan	including the house
	terminative	-kama, -yaq	wasikama, wasiyaq	up to the house
	transitive	-(rin)ta	wasinta	through the house
	ablative	-manta, -piqta	wasimanta, wasipiqta	off/from the house
	comitative	-(ni)ntin	wasintin	along with the house
	immediate	-raq	wasiraq	first the house
	intrative	-pura	wasipura	among the houses
	exclusive	-lla(n)	wasilla(n)	only the house
	comparative	-naw, -hina	wasinaw, wasihina	like the house

Adjectives

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Verbs

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References

Cusco at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Eastern Apurímac at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Nancy Hornberger & Kendall King, "Authenticity and Unification in Quechua Language Planning" Language, Culture and Curriculum 11 3 (1998): 390 - 410. http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=gse_pubs
Nonato Rufino Chuquimamani Valer. Yachakuqkunapa Simi Qullqa - Qusqu-Qullaw Qhichwa Simipi Archived 2011-08-24 at the Wayback Machine (Quechua-Quechua-Spanish dictionary). Lima: Ministerio de Educación, 2005.
"SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
Adelaar, Willem F. H. (2014). The Andean three-vowel system and its effect on the development of a modern orthography for the Aimaran and Quechuan languages. Scripta, 6, 33–46. Available at <https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/71388>.
"Personal pronouns in Quechua Cusco". Quechua Language. 2019-12-23. Archived from the original on 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2020-03-05.

External links

Simi Taqe Qheswa - Español - Qheswa (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur), Qosqo, Peru, 2006 (pdf 3,8 MB). Dictionary of the AMLQ: Cusco-Quechua - Spanish, Spanish - Cusco-Quechua.
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