58_[9783110258035 - The Indigenous Languages of South America] Languages.pdf

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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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-237812024-03-22T19:23:07Z Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective Adelaar, Willem F.H. Grondona, Verónica Campbell, Lyle General Linguistics Indigenous Languages of South America thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. 2019-11-14 23:55 2020-01-07 16:47:06 2020-04-01T09:29:04Z 2020-04-01T09:29:04Z 2012 chapter 1006362 OCN: 1135847958 9783110255133 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23781 eng application/pdf n/a 58_[9783110258035 - The Indigenous Languages of South America] Languages.pdf De Gruyter The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide 10.1515/9783110258035.575 10.1515/9783110258035.575 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 52d91b7c-88d0-4590-8048-c6d16fb45de9 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9783110255133 European Research Council (ERC) Berlin/Boston 295918 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access
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description 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.
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