Chachapoyas Quechua
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Chachapoyas Quechua is a variety of Quechua
Quechua languages
Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...

 spoken in the provinces of Chachapoyas
Chachapoyas Province
Chachapoyas is a province of the Amazonas Region, Peru. The province of Chachapoyas was a part of the department of Trujillo being its capital the city of Chachapoyas....

 and Luya
Luya Province
Luya is located in the south and west part of the department of Amazonas in Peru. Its territory, which partly is ceja de selva, is crossed by branches of the Cordillera Central and the Oriental of the Andes, being rasped by deep streams, high pampas and snowed summit...

 in the Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vian region of Amazonas
Amazonas Region
Amazonas is a department of northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca Department on the west, La Libertad Department on the south, and Loreto Department and San Martín Department on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas....

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Chachapoyas Quechua is critically endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it. Conila
Conila District
Conila is a district of the province of Luya. Conila offers several attractive places for tourists as ruins of the culture Chachapoya. Also he emphasizes the big variety of fruits that grows in the zone....

 is said to be the last village where children are still able to speak it.

Cajamarca Quechua belongs to Quechua II, subgroup Chinchay.
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