Inga Kichwa

Inga Kichwa is a dialect of Kichwa spoken in the Colombian Putumayo region by the Inga people. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the Sibundoy valley; and Jungle Inga, spoken on the Putumayo and Japurá Rivers. Ethnologue reports Highland Inga is partially intelligible with Imbabura Kichwa.^[1]

Inga Kichwa
Ingano
Native to	Colombia
Native speakers	(33,000 cited 1995–2008)^[1]
Language family	Quechua Quechua II Northern Kichwa Inga Kichwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `inb` – Highland Inga `inj` – Jungle Inga
Glottolog	`inga1252`
ELP	Inga

Inga Kichwa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Highland Inga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Jungle Inga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexandre. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

Roger Parks: The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua) (PDF)
Comité de Educación Inga de la Organización "Musu Runakuna", Diccionario Inga (edición interine en el nuevo alfabeto). Borrador de septiembre 1997 (PDF)

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