Saraguro Kichwa Evidentiality #
Saraguro Kichwa (ISO qvj) is a severely endangered Quechuan language
spoken in the Saraguro region of Loja Province, Ecuador
([MV26]).
The evidential paradigm has a 3-way distinction in matrix declaratives:
-rka— direct (also past tense)-shka— reportative (also past tense)-shi— inferential
Plus the discourse-sensitive enclitic =mi, whose semantic analysis is
contested across Quechuan varieties (Faller's direct-evidential analysis
for Cuzco Quechua does NOT carry over to Saraguro per
[MV26]). The Fragment records only the consensus
typological metadata; the focus-marker-with-discourse-sensitivity
analysis lives in Studies/MartinezVera2026.lean.
WALS Ch 77 has no entry for qvj; the threeOrMore fallback fires.
Family-style organisation #
This file sits as Fragments/Quechua/SaraguroKichwa/ mirroring the
Fragments/Slavic/{Bulgarian,Czech,Russian,...}/ precedent for
intra-family disambiguation. The Fragments/Quechua/ files at the same
level are currently misnamed (some claim quz Cuzco, one claims qvi
Imbabura) and are queued for a separate per-variety restructure; this
file does not touch them.
Typed evidential inventory #
Saraguro Kichwa's 3-way matrix-declarative system per
[MV26]: direct -rka, reportative -shka,
inferential -shi. The focus-and-verum enclitic =mi is intentionally
excluded (not analyzed as an evidential in this variety).
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