public_comment: "The question of how to distinguish between entities that are dialects of a single language vs. that are separate languages is particularly serious in the case of Quechuan languages and dialects, and much work remains to be done. Though it is well-known and very clear that there are a number of distinct languages in Quechuan, some very distinct, the tendency to consider them all merely dialects of “Quechua” persists in many circles. (Cerrón-Palomino 1987.)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
{
id:17443,
code_id:8123,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "15,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "43,982",
date_of_info: "2000",
public_comment: "Data for number of speakers: SIL (2000). 2,000 monolinguals. Data for the ethnic population: WCD (2000).
(Unchanaged 2016.)",