The complex, multilayered contact between the Quechuan and Aymaran languages is a
central but still poorly understood issue in Andean prehistory. This paper proposes a …

Why can'ta Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open an
analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern and western, highland and …

In this article, I reconsider the evidence for a Central Andean linguistic area. I suggest that
there is no evidence for a clear-cut linguistic area comprising the entire Central Andes …

At the eve of Spanish conquest, northern Peru is thought to have been home to a multitude
of languages of relatively modest geographical extension, especially when compared with …

The Quechuan and Aymaran languages, which are found across the Central Andes and
other places in Western South America, share a special historical relationship. 2 Languages …

While Quechua is often represented as unitary, partly because of academic folklore, it is
comprised of many Quechuas, differentiated in a two-millennium history, differentiated …

This chapter presents reconstructed Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara lexical items related
to cultivation and herding, and draws conclusions about language and subsistence in the …

Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner
of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua …

Aymara vowels delete under predictable phonotactic, syntactic, and morphophonemic
conditions. We provide a detailed description of each of these processes, with special …

Language transmission, and language survivance, are bound up with social organization,
territoriality, and the movement of people through social space, through marriage, fosterage …