Quechuan · ISO 639-3 qve
Eastern Apurímac Quechua Language
Eastern Apurímac Quechua is a Quechuan language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Eastern Apurímac Quechua is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Eastern Apurímac Quechua
Language family
- Quechuan
- Southern Quechua
- Cuscan Quechua
- Eastern Apurímac Quechua
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Eastern Apurímac Quechua language
Eastern Apurímac Quechua is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 377th most spoken language in the world — just behind Cusco Quechua (1.5 million) and ahead of Qashqa'i (1.5 million). It belongs to the Quechuan language family and, more precisely, to the Cuscan Quechua group within the Cuscan Quechua branch.
Where is Eastern Apurímac Quechua spoken?
Eastern Apurímac Quechua is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Peru (1.5 million).
Eastern Apurímac Quechua is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Eastern Apurímac Quechua is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Cusco Quechua.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 qve.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.