North Junín Quechua

North Junín Quechua is a Quechuan language spoken in Peru. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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North Junín Quechua is a language of Quechua spoken throughout the Andean highlands of the Northern Junín and Tarma provinces of Peru. Dialects under North Junín Quechua include Tarma Quechua spoken in Tarma Province and the subdialect San Pedros de Cajas Quechua. North Junín Quechua belongs to the Yaru Quechua dialect cluster under the Quechua I dialects. Initially spoken by Huancas and neighboring native people, the Junín dialect was absorbed by the Inca Empire in 1460 but relatively unaffected by the Southern Cuzco dialect. The Inca Empire had to defeat stiff resistance by the Huanca people.

Currently listed as an endangered language, the San Pedros de Cajas dialect of Quechua has been under study and found in use mainly at home with Spanish being used in schools. A survey conducted in a secondary school resulted in only one out of fifty students answering that they used Quechua at home.

Willem Adelaar has conducted extensive work on Quechua dialects and has published findings on the Tarma dialect. Recent work by linguists have focused on tracing the origin of Quechua by comparing the reconstructed language, Proto- Quechua, with Proto-Aymaran. There exist arguments on both sides as Paul Heggarty argues against a distant relationship. Similarities have been found to span both proto-languages from reconstruction of a variety of Quechua dialects; commonalities include apa- meaning "to carry," picqa meaning "five," urqu meaning "mountain," and qipa meaning "before (space), after (time)," all words in Junín Quechua. Qipa exemplifies relative temporal marking rather than tense marking.

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Written down

Lapan runas kay pachachru nasimun juk rantisha runanuy mana pitas sirbinanpaqmi, alipa rikasha kananpaqmi, washasha kananpaqmi. Lapan runakunas nasipaakamun yarpayniyoqmi naatan tantiyayniyoqmi ima lutanta rurapaakurursi tantiyakunanpaq. Lapan runakunas kawapaakunaman juk wawqenuylam.

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

Words in North Junín Quechua

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	nuna*
name	xuti*
eye	nawi*
ear	riNri*
nose	siNGa*
tooth	kiru*
tongue	XaLu*
hand	maki*
blood	yawar*
bone	tulu*
skin	Xara*
knee	XuNGur*
breast	CuCu*
liver	natiN*
water	yaku*
fire	nina*
sun	inti*
star	XuyLar*
stone	rumi*
mountain	xirka*
tree	xaCa*
leaf	rapra*
night	paXas*
dog	alXu*
fish	Calwa*
louse	uwa*
one	xuk*
two	iSkay*
I	nuXa*
you	Xam*