Asking Yes No questions in Southern Quechua
Channel: Carlos Molina-Vital
Date: 2020-09-22

This video presents the basic uses of -chu, an interrogative suffix, in Southern Quechua. After a quick review to open questions (those with interrogative pronouns like ima 'what' or pi 'who'), we examine the basic rules of use and intonation pattern of -chu. We take a look at the correlation of this suffix with the evidential -m/mi ("first hand knowledge"), and the possibility of using the combination -chu-m to express a forceful question.