Itier, César2022-10-262022-10-272022-10-262022-10-272021-12-15https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/24645/23395https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/187264Since the studies of Alfredo Torero, Ecuadorian-Colombian Quechua is often considered to come from a variety that was formerly spoken on the central coast of Peru and introduced into Ecuador through maritime trade long before the formation of the Inca empire. Based on a dialectal comparison and an examination of historical sources, we refute this thesis and show that Northern Quechua is the product of a strong influence of Cuzco Quechua on the speech of the North Peruvian settlers that were brought by the Incas into Ecuador. Finally, this case study leads us to question the genetic classification of Quechua dialects proposed by Torero.Desde los estudios de Alfredo Torero, se suele considerar que el quechua ecuatoriano-colombiano procede de una variedad antiguamente hablada en la costa central del Perú e introducida en Ecuador mediante un comercio marítimo en una época anterior al imperio inca. En base a la comparación dialectal y a un examen de las fuentes históricas, refutamos esta tesis y mostramos que la variedad septentrional del quechua es el producto de una “cuzqueñización” de las hablas de los colonos norperuanos instalados por los incas en Ecuador. Este estudio de caso nos conduce a cuestionar la clasificación genética de los dialectos quechuas propuesta por Torero.application/pdfspainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0QuechuaIncaEcuadorDialectologyQuechuaIncaEcuadorDialectologíainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.06https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202102.005