Santiago del Estero Quechua
Código de lengua
qus
Localización
27°40'16"S 64°22'01"W
Familia
Quechua
| Consonantes | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular |
| Oclusiva/africada | p | t | tʃ | k ɡ | q ɢ | |
| Fricativa | ɸ | s | ʃ ʒ | x | χ | |
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Aproximante | j | w | ||||
| Vibrante simple | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l |
| Vocales | Anterior | Central | Posterior |
| Cerrada | i | u | |
| Intermedia | e | o | |
| Abierta | a |
Suprasegmental
Ninguno
Bibliografía
Alderetes, Jorge. 2001. El quechua de Santiago del Estero. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.
Notas
Phonemes /b/ and /d/ are found in Spanish loans, while /ɢ/ is probably a loan from a neiɡhborinɡ indigenous lanɡuaɡe. It appears in apparent loans for local fauna and flora. Mid vowels in this variety also appear to be borrowed.
Alderetes does not distinguish /x/ and /χ/ as separate phonemes, but his description indicates that their distribution is not predicatable, suggesting that they are contrastive.