The Sounds of the Andean Languages

 

Listen to how the word five is pronounced in the Quechua and Aymara of eighteen different regions of the Andes

and how it was probably pronounced in and in .

 

five

Ecuador

Peru
north

Peru
central

Peru
south

Bolivia

 

 

 


  (Ancash, N.)


  (Titicaca, N.W.)

Regions where

languages of the


  (highlands)

 


  (Ancash, E.)

Quechua family

are spoken


  (jungle)

Island
  (Lake Titicaca)

 

 

 

 

 

Regions where

languages of the

 

 

(Yauyos)
  ‘Jaqaru’


  (Lake Titicaca, E.)


  (Lake Titicaca, S.)

Aymara family

are spoken

 

 

(Yauyos)
  ‘Kawki’