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.

Inga Kichwa
Ingano
Native to	Colombia
Region	Putumayo Department
Ethnicity	Inga people
Native speakers	11,200
Language family	Quechua Quechua II Northern Kichwa Inga Kichwa
Dialects	Highland Jungle
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: inb – Highland Inga inj – Jungle Inga
Glottolog	inga1252
ELP	Inga
Map of Inga Kichwa
Inga Kichwa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Further reading

• Parks, Roger (1990). Lee, In; Schiefelbein, Scott (eds.). "The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua)" (PDF). Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. 15 (2): 73–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-06.
• Diccionario Inga (edición interine en el nuevo alfabeto). Comité de Educación Inga de la Organización "Musu Runakuna". September 1997.