Quechuan · ISO 639-3 qup
Southern Pastaza Quechua Language
Southern Pastaza Quechua is a Quechuan language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Southern Pastaza Quechua is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Southern Pastaza Quechua
Language family
- Quechuan
- Colombia-Ecuador Quechua
- Ecuadorian Quechua B
- Imbabura-Colombia-Oriente Quechua
- Colombia-Oriente Quechua
- Oriente Quechua
- Pastaza Quechua
- Southern Pastaza Quechua
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Southern Pastaza Quechua language
Southern Pastaza Quechua is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 424th most spoken language in the world — just behind Calderón Highland Quichua (1.2 million) and ahead of Tena Lowland Quichua (1.2 million). It belongs to the Quechuan language family and, more precisely, to the Pastaza Quechua group within the Ecuadorian Quechua B branch.
Where is Southern Pastaza Quechua spoken?
Southern Pastaza Quechua is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Peru (1.2 million).
Southern Pastaza Quechua is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Southern Pastaza 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 Tena Lowland Quichua and Napo Lowland Quechua.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 qup.
Frequently asked questions about Southern Pastaza Quechua
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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.