Andean Aymara

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.
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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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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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