Ayacucho Quechua

Chanka runasimi

Ayacucho Quechua is a Quechuan language spoken in Peru, by about 918.2 thousand people.

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Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka after the local Chanka ethnicity that dominated the area before the Inca conquest) is a variety of Southern Quechua spoken in the Ayacucho Region, Peru, as well as by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima. With roughly a million speakers, it is the largest variety of Southern Quechua after Cusco Quechua. The literary standard of Southern Quechua is based on these two closely related Quechua varieties.

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Written down

Lliw runakunam nacesqanchikmantapacha libre kanchik, lliw derechonchikpipas iguallataqmi kanchik. Yuyayniyoq kasqanchikraykum hawkalla aylluntin hina kawsayta debenchik llapa runakunawan.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Ayacucho Quechua

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	runa*
name	suti*
eye	5awi*
ear	rinri*
nose	sinXa*
tooth	kiru*
tongue	XaLu*
hand	maki*
blood	yawar*
bone	tuLu*
skin	Xara*
knee	muXu*
breast	5u5u*
liver	kipCan*
water	yaku*
fire	nina*
sun	inti*
star	XuyLur*
stone	rumi*
mountain	urXu*
tree	saCa*
leaf	LaXi*
night	tuta*
dog	aLXu*
fish	CaLwa*
louse	usa*
one	huk*
two	iskay*
I	5uXa*
you	Xam*