Andean Aymara

Museu de História Natural na Universidade de Utá
Aqui  estão  algumas fotos dos destaques no museu  de História Natural na Universidade de Utá. Havia um componente interessante da antropologia que detalhava a arte tribal local com focus nas miçanguinhas que eram  usadas nas roupas, mas, infelizmente,  essas coisas não aparecem nas fotos. Em todo caso,  você [...]

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Greetings from Salt Lake City, Utah where just yesterday the CAIL-sponsored Amerind language conference at the University of Utah came to a close. Last Friday I presented a paper regarding some of my work in Muylaque, Sijuaya, and Calacoa which detailed efforts employed by myself in conjunction with Elmer and Edwin Banegas Flores to document [...]

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I’ve received a lot of emails about the quantity of English used here, and I totally agree with all of them - this site should be in Spanish.
If anyone wants to volunteer to help translate some/all of this blog/website into Spanish, please let me know by email.  Even if you just want to translate one [...]

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Já adicionei uma nova canção à página chamada de Música Muylaqueña nesta página.  É a primeira canção espanhola aqui, pois as outras estão em Aymara.  Essa música se canta durante o dia de todos os santos.
I have added a new song to the Música Muylaqueña page on this website, it is the first Spanish song posted.

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Here is a video and some information from Radio Nederland regarding Morales at the UN conference on narcotics, speaking about coca.  After living in Amsterdam for the past 3+ years, I never knew that Radio Nederland has so much Spanish-language material and programs.

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Attending the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Really an excellent event, well-organized, with some great talks and posters.
Yesterday I delievered a paper entitled “Aymara variant revitalization in remote regions in the Andes” which outlines some of my work together with Edwin Banegas Flores and his brother [...]

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The link below is the audio of a traditional greeting from Muylaque used to welcome your son-in-law into your home. The speaker is David Centena Mamani. Roughly speaking the meaning, as translated by David, is: “Welcome to my house, but this is now your house. From now on you will be to me as a son, and [...]

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I’ve added a new page on this website which features a few Aymara songs as sung by the talented 25 year-old David Centena Mamani of Muylaque. You can check it out here.

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