The Quechua of Huailas is the regional variety of Ancash Quechua language of Peru spoken in the Callejón de Huaylas and in the western slope of the Cordillera Negra.
| Huaylas Quechua | |
|---|---|
| Nunashimi , Qichwa | |
| Native to | Perú |
Native speakers | 340,000 (2000)[1] |
Quechua
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| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qwh |
| Glottolog | huay1240 |
| ELP | Huaylas Quechua |
 Huaylas quechua in Ancash | |
The main peculiarities of this variety are phonetic. In Quechua Ancash-Huailas a phenomenon of monophthongation of syllables with semiconsonants in coda is present: "aw" is often pronounced as [o:] elongated, likewise "ay" as [e:]. For example, 'awmi' is pronounced [o: mi], chawpi (center) [t͡ʃo: pi] and aywan (walks) as [e: wan]. In grammatical terms, Huailas does not have the suffix -ski .
References
- ^ Quechua, Huaylas Ancash at Ethnologue (20th ed., 2017)
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