Andean Aymara

It’s been a while since I posted any news from the Andes so here’re some headlines:

The ILAP (Peruvian Amazon Research Institute) will open an office in Loreto to thwart coca-growing operations promoted by Columbian traffickers. Coca leaf production has increased in Loreto with the recent collapse in the region’s lumber industry.

The world Bank’s Board of [...]

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The Hans Rausing Endangered Language Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies is holding a one-day international workshop on Saturday 27 February 2010, 9.30am - 6.00pm.
The goal of the workshop is to explore the sustainability of endangered languages, and sustainability of research (in both theory and practice). The keynote speaker is Lenore Grenoble [...]

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Today, 17 November, is the 116th anniversary of the American-backed coup d’état of Queen Liliuokalani’s constitutional monarchy which resulted in Hawaii’s US annexation five years later.
See a video here.

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Workshop: Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas
Leiden University, March 25-26 2010
The categories of mood and modality find extremely diverse realizations across languages (e.g.Palmer 2001). Consequently, there is no unanimity which notions these two categories actually comprise. The increasing availability of data on Indigenous American languages makes it now possible to take a fresh [...]

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Embora a maioria dos lingüistas aceite que a primeira língua oficial dos Incas e do Cuzco tenha sido a aimara, esse não é um fato amplamente reconhecido pelos não-Andeanistas. No simpósio realizado na PUCP (Lima), alguns pesquisadores alemães que estavam fazendo um estudo genético dos restos humanos confirmaram que os habitantes originais eram de fato [...]

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Although most linguists are aware that the first official language of the Incas and of Cuzco (or however you want to spell it) was Aymara, this is not a fact widely recognized by non-Andeanists. In fact at the last symposium at the PUCP (Lima), some German researchers (sorry, their name escapes me at the moment, [...]

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