Jaqaru language  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Native to Peru Ethnicity Jaqaru, Kawki Native
speakers 740  (2004)[1] Language family   • Jaqaru Language
codes ISO 639-3 jqr Distribution of Jaqaru (orange)  Jaqaru
(Haq'aru) is a language of the Aymara family.[2] It is also
known as Jaqi and Aru. It is spoken in the districts of Tupe and
Catahuasi in the province of Yauyos, within the Peruvian
department of Lima. Most of the 2000 ethnic Jaqaru have migrated
to Lima.  Kawki, a divergent dialect, is spoken in the nearby
communities of Cachuy, Canchán, Caipán and Chavín by a few
elderly individuals (9 surviving in early 2005).
Hardman[citation needed] has noted that while Jaqaru and Kawki
share a degree of mutual intelligibility, speakers of one were
unable to understand tape recordings of the other, and in a few
cases of marriage between Kawki and Jaqaru speakers, the home
language was Spanish. (However, the home language of most Jaqaru
and Kawki is now Spanish.) Historical ana