• DOI:10.1017/S0025100312000266
• Corpus ID: 148850058

Illustrations of the IPA: Tena Quichua

@article{Orourke2013IllustrationsOT,
  title={Illustrations of the IPA: Tena Quichua},
  author={Erin O’rourke and Tod D. Swanson},
  journal={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},
  year={2013},
  volume={43},
  pages={107-120},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148850058}
}

• Erin O’rourke, Tod D. Swanson
• Published 1 April 2013
• Linguistics
• Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Tena Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) belongs to the Quechuan language family, as part of the peripheral variety Quechua IIB (Torero 1964, Cerr ⁄ on-Palomino 1987, Gordon 2005). It is spoken in the Eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador on the Napo River above the mouth of the Rio Coca, primarily on three tributaries: the Misahualli, the Arajuno, and the Ansuc. Tena Quichua is bounded on the North and East by Napo Quichua and on the South by Pastaza Quichua. Previous research on the division of Ecuadorian… 

Tena Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) belongs to the Quechuan language family, as part of the peripheral variety Quechua IIB (Torero 1964, Cerr ⁄ on-Palomino 1987, Gordon 2005). It is spoken in the Eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador on the Napo River above the mouth of the Rio Coca, primarily on three tributaries: the Misahualli, the Arajuno, and the Ansuc. Tena Quichua is bounded on the North and East by Napo Quichua and on the South by Pastaza Quichua. Previous research on the division of Ecuadorian dialects is summarized by Carpenter (1984: 3–4). Although it is beyond the scope of this Illustration, we hope that our description of Tena Quichua will prove useful in future work on the relations between these three Amazonian dialects of Ecuadorian Quichua. Below, a brief summary of Tena dialect identification and formation is given, followed by a description of present-day bilingualism in the region and data collection procedures. The Tena dialect was first identified when the Wycliffe Bible translators carried out surveys on what was then generically called ‘Jungle Quichua’ or ‘Quichua del Oriente’ to determine the boundaries of comfortable mutual intelligibility for a written text, namely translations of the Bible. As noted in Gordon (2005), Tena Quichua is considered to be mutually intelligible with Bobonaza (Pastaza) and Napo dialects in speaking but not in written form.1 Both the Tena and Bobonaza dialects are classified as Eastern variants of Central Sierra Quichua. This means that they likely entered the Amazonian region through the Pastaza Valley which has its headwaters in the Tungurahua area. By contrast, the Napo dialect spoken below the mouth of the Coca