In the early Spanish colonial period, the territory of Quito underwent a large-scale shift from multiple pre-Incan languages to a Quechuan language first introduced by the Incas and then adopted by the Spanish as the general language of colonial society. This article considers the evidence that these languages left linguistic effects that can still be detected in modern Ecuadorian Highland Quichua, contributing a large lexicon of non-Quechuan toponyms and influencing the development of unique morphosyntactic and phonological features that contrast with Peruvian Quechuan languages. It is concluded that there is considerable evidence that the toponymic lexicon of Quichua includes large numbers of cognate forms with modern Barbacoan languages and that many of the unique linguistic features of Ecuadorian Highland Quichua are similar to features of the Barbacoan languages, suggesting historical Barbacoan influence.

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厄瓜多尔高地基丘亚人和北安第斯山脉失落的语言

在西班牙殖民初期，基多的领土经历了从多种前印加语言到首先由印加人引入并被西班牙人采用为殖民社会通用语言的盖川语的大规模转变。本文考虑的证据表明，这些语言留下的语言影响仍然可以在现代厄瓜多尔高地 Quichua 中检测到，贡献了大量非 Quecuan 地名词典，并影响了与秘鲁 Quecuan 语言形成对比的独特形态句法和语音特征的发展。