Cajamarca-Cañaris Quechua is a branch of Quechua spoken in northern Peru, consisting primarily of Cajamarca Quechua and Lambayeque Quechua, spoken in the Cajamarca and Lambayeque regions near the towns of Cajamarca and Cañaris. Cajamarca and Lambayeque Quechua share 94 percent lexical similarity and are mutually intelligible; Adelaar (2004) also includes the dialect of Lincha District, far to the south on the border of the Lima and Huancavelica regions.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Peru, found in there.
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