Pacaraos Quechua

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level.The Quechua of Pacaraos was investigated by the Dutch linguist Willem F. H. Adelaar in 1970ies, when it was still spoken by women in their sixties and older. Around the year 2000 there were possibly no active speakers left, but there are probably some people with passive knowledge who grew up with their grandparents.