Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective Emphasis on Quechuan and Aymaran.

Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are language families of several million speakers each. Quechuan consists of a conglom...

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Главный автор: Adelaar, Willem F.H (auth)
Другие авторы: Grondona, Verónica (Редактор), Campbell, Lyle (Редактор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
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Итог:Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are language families of several million speakers each. Quechuan consists of a conglomerate of geo-graphically defined varieties, traditionally referred to as Quechua "dialects", not-withstanding the fact that mutual intelligibility is often lacking. Present-day Aymaran consists of two distinct languages that are not normally referred to as "dialects". The absence of a demonstrable genetic relationship between the Quechuan and Aymaran language families, accompanied by a lack of recognizable external gen-etic connections, suggests a long period of independent development, which may hark back to a period of incipient subsistence agriculture roughly dated between8000 and 5000 BP (Torero 2002: 123-124), long before the Andean civilization attained its highest stages of complexity.
ISBN:9783110258035.575
9783110255133
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