TY  - CHAP
AU  - Adelaar, Willem F.H.
ED  - Grondona, Verónica
ED  - Campbell, Lyle
AB  - Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are language families of several million speakers each. Quechuan consists of a conglomerate of geo-graphically defined varieties, traditionally referred to as Quechua “dialects”, not-withstanding the fact that mutual intelligibility is often lacking. Present-day Aymaran consists of two distinct languages that are not normally referred to as “dialects”. The absence of a demonstrable genetic relationship between the Quechuan and Aymaran language families, accompanied by a lack of recognizable external gen-etic connections, suggests a long period of independent development, which may hark back to a period of incipient subsistence agriculture roughly dated between8000 and 5000 BP (Torero 2002: 123–124), long before the Andean civilization attained its highest stages of complexity.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110258035.575
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006362
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847958
KW  - General Linguistics
KW  - Indigenous Languages of South America
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b6cadd15-26b8-4284-8f72-f3431760872c/58_[9783110258035 - The Indigenous Languages of South America] Languages.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23781
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9783110255133
TI  - Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective : Emphasis on Quechuan and Aymaran.
ER  - 
