Where to Find Out More…
… about Unified Spelling for Quechua
If you want to find out more, there are more articles about Quechua
spelling on this webpage.
We also recommend these books, which are particularly useful:
•
A dictionary with official spellings (and
Original Quechua forms). In theory, every main library in
Peru should have a copy.
Cerrón-Palomino,
Rodolfo (1994) Quechua sureño: diccionario unificado
Lima:
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú
• A recent Bolivian pamphlet guide (22 pages) to the official spelling:
Laime Ajacopa, Teófilo (2001?) Qhichwata allinta
qillqanapaq p’anqa: Manual de ortografía
quechua
La Paz: Centro de investigación y
planificación lingüística, intercultural y multiétnica ("Ceiplim"), Grupo
Editorial Anthropos
• Chapter 1, part 6 of this book (pages 48-53) is particularly useful for explaining the logic behind the official spelling, and certain other rules:
Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo (1995) Quechumara: estructuras
paralelas
La
Paz: Centro de Investigación y Promoción
del Campesinado. (A second edition is now in preparation.)