Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Quechua, Imbabura (qvi) Alternative Names  Imbabura Highland Quichua, Otavalo Quichua Family/Group  Quechuan Area  South America General Data  • language spoken in nothern Ecuador (Province of Imbabura) • language family is probably a linguistic isolate Typological Information  • preference for SOV • agglutinative and suffixing • no gender • distinction between parts of speech is very flexible Reduplication Form-Function  full reduplication only Reduplication System  • full reduplication with and without suffixiation • used to express manner • majority of ideophones are reduplications Comments  genetic classification in Torero 1964 and 15th Ethnologue: Quechuan, Quechua II Forms  Select Value root stem word   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull full with affixation Semantics  Select Valueother plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — other adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — adjective/adverb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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