Andean Aymara

Translation added to website

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La Señora de la Máscara: La primera tumba wari hallada intacta en la huaca Pucllana

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After months of silence and stalled talks, Peruvian delegates and officials from Yale University met Tuesday for a third round of negotiations at the Permanent Mission of Peru

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“A Bolivian anthropologist is appealing to his government to put the breaks on development of floating reed tourism attractions that replicate Peru’s Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca.
Manuel Rojas Boyan asked Bolivia to respect the ancient traditions of the Uros civilization, telling Peruvian daily El Comercio that he believes it is unacceptable to exploit a millenary [...]

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Indigenous groups lifted their road blockades and suspended their strike against key energy sites Thursday, a day after a congressional committee voted to repeal two land development laws decreed by President Alan García.
García called the move a “grave historical mistake” and predicted that rolling back his decrees would condemn Peru’s rural and indigenous communities to [...]

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From DemocracyNow:
“In Peru, indigenous rights groups called off more than a week of protests at two key Peruvian energy sites after congressional leaders moved to throw out a controversial land law. The law would have made it easier for mining and energy companies to buy communally owned land. Indigenous groups were concerned this would have [...]

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[DemocracyNow]
“Peru’s government has declared a state of emergency in three northern provinces following nine days of protests by indigenous groups in the Amazon basin. Members of sixty-five Indian tribes are protesting a law that would make it easier for communal land to be sold to developers. The protests began when the Indians blocked an [...]

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“The Chair of ELDP is conducting a review of all ELDP grants and
administrative procedures. The Board of Arcadia will discuss the report
resulting from the review in November 2008. We are planning to change the
timetable to allow candidates more time to submit their grant applications.
It is also possible that certain types of grant will be modified [...]

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[[SEE COMMENTS BELOW FOR FACT CLARIFICATION RE: INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD VS. NORTH AMERICAN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD]]
The sixth annual International Linguistics Olympiad was held this year in Bulgaria. After taking a look at the test, I noticed that there is question about Aymara. Interesting! Check out the relevant part of the test below. You can see [...]

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La versión en PDF de esta presentación dada en el curso de verano 3L (Londres, Lyon, Leiden) en Lyon - Francia el 2 de Julio del 2008 puede ser vista aqui junto con muchos otras presentaciones interesantes sobre diferentes idiomas Amerindios en peligro de extinción estudiados por un grupo internacional de estudiantes investigadores. ¡Dale un [...]

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