Andean Aymara

Most people interested in Andean languages know of the parallels between Aymara and Quechua grammar. However, rarely do we think about those same parallels in Chipaya. This is probably due, in large part, to the lack of any complete grammar or dictionary on any Uru-Chipayan language — to the best of my knowledge, our understanding [...]

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Tomorrow Edwin Banegas Flores (Chief Linguistic Consultant, Aymara documentation project), here for his final week in Europe, will be speaking at the eighth AIN conference (Americanists In the Netherlands). Edwin will talk about the nature of his work at the LPP lab in Paris and will touch on the phonetics and phonology of his variety [...]

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Yesterday Edwin Banegas Flores, a native speaker of Moqueguan Aymara (and one of the primary consultants in this documentation project), arrived in Paris from Lima (after a brief afternoon in Amsterdam).
The phonetic testing began with an ePGG analysis using technology developed by Honda, Maeda, & Kitamura. Basically, the ePGG sensor they created detects glottal transillumination [...]

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Research into the phonology of Aymara continues productively thanks to the guidance of Antonia Colazo Simon at the phonetics lab at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris 3. Stage 1 is well underway — so we are hard at work going through hundreds of elicited words and annotating them on a text grid in Praat. Results are [...]

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Todos que estudaram línguas aglutinantes como o aimara e a quíchua têm notado que muitas vezes uma única palavra em uma língua corresponde a uma frase inteira em um idioma românico ou germânico. Normalmente, essa palavra aglutinante é muito extensa e contém muitos morfemas tanto nominais como verbais –  às vezes, até as palavras bissillábicas [...]

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Just returned from my final stay in Muylaque last night and in Moquegua now: one grilled chicken, a cold beer and a cool shower later.   This was by far the most productive fieldwork trip so far, not only because my methodology has improved, but also because I’ve become more well-known and trusted in the [...]

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Anyone who has looked at agglutinative languages like Aymara or Quechua has noticed that oftentimes a single word in such a language corresponds to an entire sentence in a Germanic or Romance one. Usually that agglutinative word is pretty big, containing a handful of both nominal and verbal morphemes – but sometimes even [...]

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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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Let’s take a look at some a little play-on-words in Muylaq Aymara (though it likely exists in other variants as well). I’ll keep this as non-technical as possible. The play hinges on the two synonyms for the word ‘cat’, phisi and misi. Although the former is much more popular in everyday language in the Moqueguan [...]

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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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