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Central Quechua
Quechua I
Qichwa
Native to	Peru
Region	Andes
Ethnicity	Quechua,
Native speakers	(750 000 cited 1987–2002)
Language family	Quechuan Central Quechua
Dialects	Ayacucho Conchucos South Conchucos Yauyos Topará
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: qwa – Corongo Quechua qwh – Huaylas Quechua qws – Northern Conchucos Quechua qxo – Southern Conchucos Quechua qvn – Huamalies and North of 2 de mayo Quechua qvw – Huaylla Quechua qxw – Jauja Quechua qxn – Sihuas Quechua qxa – Chiquián Quechua qul – Cajatambo Quechua qvm – Margos Yarowilca Lauricocha Quechua qub – Huallaga Quechua qxh – Panao Quechua qur – Chawpi waranqa Quechua qxt – Santa Ana de Tusi Quechua qva – Ambo Quechua qux – Yauyos Quechua qxc – Chincha Quechua
Glottolog	quec1389
Distribution of Quechua sub-groups. Southern Quechua is shown in blue.

Central Quechua (Quechua: Chawpi qichwa, Spanish: quechua central), or simply Quechua (Qichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 750 000 speakers. The term Cental Quechua refers to the Quechuan varieties spoken in regions of the central Andes in central Peru. It includes the Quechua varieties spoken in the regions of Ancash, Huánuco and Puno in Peru, The most widely spoken varieties are Huaylas, Conchucos, and Huanca In the traditional classification of the Quechua language family by Alfredo Torero, Central Quechua is equivalent to Torero's 'Quechua I' (or just 'QI'). It thus stands in contrast to its many sister varieties within the wider Quechuan family that are spoken in areas south of the Huancayo-Huancavelica line: Southern Quechua (Torero's QIIc) spoken from Huancayo southwards to the Ayacucho Region; North Peruvian Quechua around Cajamarca and Incahuasi (Torero's IIa); and Kichwa (part of Torero's Quechua IIb).

Standard Quechua

The Peruvian Ministery of Education has devised a standard orthography intended to be viable for all the different regional forms of Quechua that fall under the umbrella term Central Quechua. It is a compromise of conservative features in the pronunciations of the various regions that speak forms of Central Quechua. It has been accepted by many institutions in Peru and is also used on Wikipedia Quechua pages, and by Microsoft in its translations of software into Quechua.

Here are some examples of regional spellings different from the standard orthography:

Ayacucho	Cuzco	Standard	Translation
upyay	uhay	upyay	"to drink"
llamkay	llank'ay	llamk'ay	"to work"
ñuqanchik	nuqanchis	ñuqanchik	"we (inclusive)"
-chka-	-sha-	-chka-	(progressive suffix)
punchaw	p'unchay	p'unchaw	"day"

In Bolivia, the same standard is used except for "j", which is used instead of "h" for the sound [h] (like in Spanish).

Sound examples for words pata, phata p'ata.

The following letters are used for the inherited Quechua vocabulary and for loanwords from Aymara:
a, ch, chh, ch', h, i, k, kh, k', l, ll, m, n, ñ, p, ph, p', q, qh, q', r, s, t, th, t', u, w, y.

Instead of "sh" (appearing in the northern and central Quechua varieties), "s" is used.
Instead of "ĉ" (appearing in the Quechua varieties of Junín, Cajamarca, and Lambayeque), "ch" is used.

The following letters are used in loanwords from Spanish and other languages (not from Aymara):
b, d, e, f, g, o.

The letters e and o are not used for native Quechua words because the corresponding sounds are simply allophones of i and u that appear predictably next to q, qh, and q'. This rule applies to the official Quechua orthography for all varieties. Thus, the spellings ⟨qu⟩ and ⟨qi⟩ are pronounced [qo] and [qe].

The letters appear, however, in proper names or words adopted directly from Spanish:
c, v, x, z; j (in Peru; in Bolivia, it is used instead of h).