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The traditional view of the linguistic prehistory of the Quechua family is founded on the assumption of a fundamental split between two deep branches, Quechua I and II. The validity of this classification is increasingly disputed, however, with critics arguing that the Quechua “Continuous Zone” shows not a split pattern but a dialect continuum, with the “missing link” to be found between the Central (QI) and Southern (QIIc) poles. Nonetheless, the region between Huancayo (southernmost QI) and Huancavelica (northernmost QIIc) provides the strongest evidence for a sharp QI~QII split, in the form of a relatively distinct linguistic frontier (or “isogloss bundle”).
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Pearce, A.J., Heggarty, P. (2011). “Mining the Data” on the Huancayo-Huancavelica Quechua Frontier. In: Heggarty, P., Pearce, A.J. (eds) History and Language in the Andes. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370579_5
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