Huaylas Quechua

{{Short description|Quechuan language of west-central Peru}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Huaylas Quechua

| nativename = {{lang|qwh|Nunashimi, Qichwa}}

| states = Peru

| speakers = {{sigfig|173,000|2}}

| date = 2017

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Quechuan

| fam1 = Quechua

| fam2 = Central (Quechua I)

| fam3 = Ancash Quechua

languages

| dia1 = Huarás

| iso3 = qwh

| glotto = huay1240

| glottorefname = Huaylas Ancash Quechua

| map = Extensión del quechua de waylas.png

| mapcaption = Huaylas Quechua in Ancash

}}

Huaylas Quechua is an Ancash Quechua dialect spoken in the Callejón de Huaylas and in the western slope of the Cordillera Negra.

The main peculiarities of this variety are phonetic. In Quechua Ancash-Huailas a phenomenon of monophthongation of syllables with semiconsonants in coda is present: "aw" is often pronounced as {{IPA|[oː]}} elongated, likewise "ay" as {{IPA|[eː]}}. For example, {{lang|qwh|awmi}} is pronounced {{IPA|[oːmi]}}, {{lang|qwh|chawpi}} (center) {{IPA|[t͡ʃoːpi]}} and {{lang|qwh|aywan}} (walks) as {{IPA|[eːwan]}}. In grammatical terms, Huaylas lacks the suffix {{lang|qwh|-ski}}.