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Where is Santiago del Estero Quichua spoken?

Santiago del Estero Quichua (Arhintinap runasimin) is a Quechuan language, spoken in Argentina. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Santiago del Estero Quichua is spoken

Santiago del Estero Quichua is spoken in one country: Argentina.

Country
Argentina

On the map, Santiago del Estero Quichua is drawn as an area from Figueira 1982 (Argentina). The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18614195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Santiago del Estero Quichua.

How many people speak Santiago del Estero Quichua?

Wikidata gives about 170,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2000). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Santiago del Estero Quichua sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Santiago del Estero Quichua as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Quechuan
  2. Southern Quechua
  3. Bolivian-Argentinian Quechua
  4. South Bolivian-Argentinian Quechua
  5. Santiago del Estero Quichua

Related languages

Other languages in the South Bolivian-Argentinian Quechua group:

More about Santiago del Estero Quichua

Codes: ISO 639-3 qus, Glottolog sant1432. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Santiago del Estero Quichua

Where is Santiago del Estero Quichua spoken?

Santiago del Estero Quichua is spoken in Argentina. On the map it is shown as an area from Figueira 1982 (Argentina).

How many people speak Santiago del Estero Quichua?

Wikidata gives about 170,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2000). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Santiago del Estero Quichua in?

Glottolog places Santiago del Estero Quichua in the Quechuan family, in the branch Southern Quechua, Bolivian-Argentinian Quechua and South Bolivian-Argentinian Quechua.

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