The Quechua Comes to Town
Author | : William Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Quechua Indians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Quechua Indians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith Noble |
Publisher | : Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Quechua language |
ISBN | : 1608441547 |
The general language of the former Inca Empire, Quechua is today the most widely spoken indigenous American language. It is used by over six million people in the Andean region of South America - an area that includes southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northwestern Argentina. Introduction to Quechua provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the language and culture of the Quechua speakers. This book is divided into three parts. Section I focuses on the spelling and pronunciation of the language. Section II consists of 494 Model Sentences in both Quechua and English, many in a helpful question-and-answer format that enables a person to communicate in situations typically encountered by the traveler. Literal translations are also included, to provide insight into the grammatical structures involved. These sentences cover a wide range of practical topics, from extending greetings and social courtesies to asking about transportation, describing things, expressing likes and dislikes, and requesting help. The models also show how to talk about time and past events and to express commands and conditional sentences. Many Model Sentences are followed by one or more Expansions to offer additional structures and/or vocabulary. Section III of the book offers important notes on the grammar of Quechua and includes model verb conjugations. This section is followed by extensive lists of practical vocabulary, going beyond the words used in the Model Sentences and their Expansions. Introduction to Quechua will prove to be an essential handbook and reference for any traveler, student, researcher, or businessperson who is interested in the Andean region and in communicating with Quechua speakers.
Author | : Liliana Sánchez |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027252944 |
This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence of overt determiners, canonical SVO word order and the absence of accusative marking in bilingual Quechua and by neutralization of case and gender distinctions in direct object pronouns as well as in the emergence of null pronouns with definite antecedents in bilingual Spanish.
Author | : James N. Stanford |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027218641 |
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Everett-Heath |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1575 |
Release | : 2017-12-07 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0192556460 |
Every populated place, however small, has a name, and every name is chosen for a reason. This fascinating dictionary gives the history, meanings, and origin of an enormous range of country, region, island, city, and town names from across the world, as well as the name in the local language. It also includes key historical facts associated with many place names. Place-names are continually changing. New names are adopted for many different reasons such as invasion, revolution, and decolonization. This dictionary includes selected former names, and, where appropriate, some historical detail to explain the transition. The names of places often offer a real insight into the places themselves, revealing religious and cultural traditions, the migration of peoples, the ebb and flow of armies, the presence of explorers, local languages, industrial developments and topography. Superstition and legend can also play a part. All this fascinating detail is included in the Concise Dictionary of World Place Names. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary includes two appendices: a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names and their meanings, and a list of personalities and leaders from all over the world who have influenced the naming of places. Containing over 10,000 names, from Aachen to Zyrardów, this is a unique and fascinating guide for geographers, travellers, and all with an interest in current world affairs.
Author | : Leonilda Humpiri Puma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781715827595 |
Wake up, it's time to go to school! Shaya is a young Quechua-speaking girl who loves learning at school. She wakes up, gets dressed, and eats breakfast. Then she walks to school with her mom. Even though Shaya lives in Peru, her morning routine is shared by many kids around the world. Told in novice level Quechua, with English and Spanish included at the back of the book.
Author | : Anna Babel |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0816537267 |
Examining how people understand themselves and others in the linguistic crossroads of South America--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Julian Haynes Steward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1270 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Durston |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0268103720 |
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy. Contributors: Alan Durston, Bruce Mannheim, Sabine MacCormack, Bas van Doesburg, Camilla Townsend, Capucine Boidin, Angélica Otazú Melgarejo, Judith M. Maxwell, Margarita Huayhua.