Grammatical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua (Ecuador)

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1. Background Imbabura Quichua (henceforth IQ) is a Quechua language spoken in the Northern Andes of Ecuador by approximately 150,000 speakers. 1 The province of Imbabura ranks second among the nine Quichua-speaking provinces of the Ecuadorian Andes as for the number of speakers (Haboud, 1998: 91 92). Imbabura shows also the largest number of bilingual Quichua–Spanish speakers in the country (Büttner, 1993: 48: 49). Although there are a small number of IQ monolinguals among elders, the tendency nowadays is towards increasing levels of bilingualism accompanied with the maintenance of the native language. IQ has been in contact with Spanish since the second half of the sixteenth-century in a diglossic relation. The language is vigorously spoken in most Indian settlements of the province at community and family levels. It is taught in schools as part of the Bilingual Intercultural Education …

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2007

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