Ayacucho Quechua

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.

Ayacucho Quechua
Chanka runasimi
Native toPeru
Native speakers
918,200 (2000)
Quechuan
  • Quechua II
    • Southern Quechua
      • Ayacucho Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
quy – Ayacucho
qxu – Arequipa–La Unión
Glottologayac1238
ELPAyacucho Quechua
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