Andean Aymara

CINE OTRO / Valparaíso, Chile / Del 21 al 26 de junio del 2009.
El Centro Cultural Colectivo Cine Forum de Valparaíso Chile ( iniciadores de los festivales de cine social y derechos humanos que se realiza en enero desde el 2007 hasta hoy y organizador de la Muestra de Cine de los Pueblos Indígenas de julio del [...]

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I’ve just came across a really excellent podcast that is a great tool for anyone interested in improving their (peninsular) Spanish. The shows are interesting, useful, and not bogged down with grammar. Plus, the hosts speak in a normal and natural way. That’s unusual for this sort of podcast! Anyway, if you’re interested check it [...]

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Written by: Amedeo De Dominicis 
Description: The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De [...]

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Vamos analisar um jogo de palavras no Muylaq Aymara, apesar do fato que imagino que exista este jogo nas otras variantes tambem. O jogo tem a ver com os dois homônimos da palavra ‘gato’, phisi e misi. Bem, o phisi é muito mais comum na fala cotidiana dos falantes das variantes Moqueguanas que já [...]

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Linguistic shift in the colonial Andes: The demise of the Pukina language
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SUSANA MONTESINOS
(MPhil Latin American & Amerindian studies)
Leiden University

The central goal of this research is the historical reconstruction of the demise of Pukina, a language spoken in the Altiplano area by the arrival of the Spanish in 1532 and claimed by some to be the [...]

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Here are two online sources for works relating to evidentiality in Aymara:
Nuñez & Sweetser. 2006. ‘With the future behind them’ Cognitive Science 30:501-450 [link]
Hardman, MJ.  1982.  ’The Mutual influence of Spanish and the Andean languages’ Word 33:143-157. [link] (see section 5.4.1 for a brief overview of data source marking)

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Every month students and researchers from all of the Netherlands gather at one Dutch university to attend informal presentations of our colleagues and discuss relevant topics in linguistics and language documenation. News of upcoming events (including dates, locations, and abstracts) will be posted on this website and previous material will be archived here. Also, check [...]

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Many cave paintings were rediscovered by Peruvian archaeologist Olivera in the Toquepala caves of the Western Andes in Utcubamba province. [link]
Pre-Incan cemetary and citadel found in the Bagua Grande region. Also found:  circular stone dwellings, a variety of tools. [link]
Kichua and Arbela indigenous communities block river traffic on Curacay and Napo Rivers on April 12 [...]

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Utaparqi is just a couple kilometers downhill from Muylaque, en route to Sijuaya. It is a small conglomeration of abandoned stone houses, many of which are reduced to walls or foundations. Just outside the village, a small stonewall defines an area once used by visitors to camp and sell tools and supplies. According to [...]

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Excerpts from Vocabulario en Aymara y Espan̆ol ; in fine partis I: impressa en la casa de la Compania de Jesus del pueblo de Juli que esta en la prouincia de Chucuyto en la emprenta Francisco del Canto (published in 1612; available for viewing at the Leiden University library special collections room)
Extractos de Vocabulario en [...]

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