With some 108 independent genealogical units, South America is the linguistically most
diverse region of our planet and presents a particular challenge to linguists seeking to …

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural
populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second …

Abstract The Central Andes are characterized by the early emergence of complex societies
and a chequered yet continuous cultural tradition. However, at least for certain points of time …

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 …

Abstract In the Proto-Quechuan lexicon, many two-segment phonetic substrings recur in
semantically related roots, even though they are not independent morphemes. Such …

This article considers the multimodal enregisterment of an ancestral time-space in
indigenous-language media production. Beginning from the insight that chronotopes …

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 …

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 …

In the face of settler colonial expansion, contemporary environmental change, and
contradictory revitalization practices, language activists in Napo, Ecuador are increasingly …

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