Andean Aymara

This book, published in 1999 by Werner Guttentag T. in La Paz and Cochabamaba proports to be more than a grammar:

Qullajaqin Arupa no es una gramatica en el sentido tradicional. Quiere ser un metodo sencillo y practico que permita el aprendizaje rapido de los elementos fundamentals de la lengua aymara, utilizando algunas tecnicas modernas de [...]

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The Economist has a special edition for the holidays which includes an article entitled “Tongue Twisters” which has to do with difficult languages (for English speakers) which makes mentions of interesting aspects of various languages of the world without using much jargon. They make mention of the phonology of !Xóõ, the agglutinative properties of Turkish, and [...]

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De acuerdo a las investigaciones realizadas, los indígenas apostados en la Curva del Diablo (Bagua, Amazonas) el 5 de junio pasado no portaban armas de fuego.
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The AOP (a US NGO) is doing a lot of great work in the Andes, specifically in Peru. Just recently one of their projects was featured on the local Huancayo news.
Full disclosure: I am the Director of the Netherlands chapter.

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For the next few months, the well-known PBS documentary can be seen for free here.
To make ‘The Linguists’ part of your permanent collection for educational 
screenings, visit this site. 
To learn more, visit the official site. 

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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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Herzog has returned again to Peru, the land where he filmed two excellent films, Aguirre der Zorn Gottes in 1972 and, a decade later, Fitzcarraldo both with Klaus Kinski. Apparently he is filming near the Vilcanota River (AKA Wilcamayu/Huilcamayo, Urubamba) in Cusco’s Sacred Valley. This should be good…

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The Regional Learning Project announced the release of another documentary directed by Dr. Sally Thompson (University of Michigan) which seems like it may be interesting, though I’ve yet to see it.
According to the description on the project website:
Tribal languages are disappearing at an alarming rate. This film reviews the history of indigenous language loss, documents [...]

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The NYTimes profiles Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui, the amazing 85 year-old man who translated Don Quixote into Quechua for the first time.
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Huh k’iti, la Mancha llahta suyupin, mana yuyarina markapin, yaqa kay watakuna kama, huh axllasqa wiraqucha…
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En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo…
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Somewhere [...]

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