Quechuan, Quechua I. Some communities of over 100 people are reported to be totally monolingual. There are two dialects in Tarma Province which differ from the town of Junin. Pastoralists, peasant agriculturalists. Literature probably needs to be adapted from Ancash. Pasco Department, sparsely populated high country and more densely populated valleys, districts of Yanahuanca, Villcabamba, Tapoc, Chacayan, Paucar, San Pedro de Pillao, Goyllarisquizqa.
Many dialects intersect here.
Literature in two or three dialects will need adaptation with Tusi and Huariaca. Pasco Department, west of Huariaca. Northern jungle, Anatico Lake, Pastaza and Huasaga rivers, and along the Urituyacu. Quechuan, Quechua II, B. Distinct from Northern Pastaza Quechua of Peru and Ecuador. Quechuan, Quechua II, C. Differs from Cuzco Quechua in its borrowing of lexicon and morphology from Aymara.