Cajamarca Quechua is a variety ofQuechua spoken in the districts ofChetilla,Baños del Inca andCajamarca (Porcón) in thePeruvian province ofCajamarca, along the northwest coast of Peru.

It was never spoken throughout theCajamarca Department, where other indigenous languages likeKulyi,Jivaroan, orMochica were spoken.

Cajamarca Quechua is severely endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it.

Cajamarca Quechua belongs toQuechua II, subgroupCajamarca–Cañaris (Quechua II a, Yunkay) and is closest toLambayeque Quechua, with which it has 94% lexical similarity.^[1] Félix Quesada published the first grammar and dictionary in 1976.^[2]

There are three vowels: /a, i, u/^[3]

• Félix Quesada C. (1976): Diccionario Quechua de Cajamarca–Cañaris [–Castellano y vice versa]. Ministerio de educación del Perú.
• Félix Quesada C. (1976): Gramática quechua, Cajamarca-Cañaris. Ministerio de educación del Perú.
• David Coombs et al. (2003): Rimashun kichwapi: Hablemos en quechua
• Marco A. Arana Zegarra (2002):Resolución de Conflictos Medioambientales en la Microcuenca del Río Porcón, Cajamarca 1993-2002Archived 2014-11-27 at theWayback Machine. Thesis 2002, Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú.
• Ronel Groenewald et al. (2002): Shumaq liyinawan yaĉakushun - Aprendamos con los cuentos bonitos

Cajamarca Quechua test ofWikipedia atWikimedia Incubator

• David Coombs et al. (2003):Rimashun Kichwapi: hablemos en quechua (introduction to Cajamarca Quechua, in Spanish)
• Pulla purishun: Academia Regional del Idioma kichwa variedad Cajamarca, ARIQC (German web server)
• Mushuq Tistamintu: The New Testament in Cajamarca Quechua (PDF 2.2 MB)
• Mishki Rimay (Dulce Idioma): Dolores Ayay Chilón on Quechua and indigenous culture in the community of Porcón (in Quechua, Spanish subtitles)

• Unay willanakuna: Urqu Kilish (TheApuQuilish and other tales, collected by Dolores Ayay Chilón, ARIQC)
• Cuentokuna llaqtancheqmanta (1979, told by Blanca Ortiz Chamán, Cruz Landa Quito, Vicente Ortiz Alaya, collected by David Coombs, SIL, PDF 1.0 MB)
• Shumaq Kwintukuna (1983, told by Cruz Landa Quito, Vicente Ortiz Alaya, SIL, PDF 1.4 MB)
• Unay Kwintitukuna (1997, collected by Santos A. Calua Terán, SIL, PDF 2.4 MB)

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