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 …

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

According to the traditional Quechuan classification which has dominated Andean historical
linguistics since the 1960s, the Ecuadorian Quechua group (Andean Quichua, Amazonian …

This chapter presents the first of three case studies, applying the framework for studying lost
languages described in the previous chapter to the Andes of Southern Peru. Significant …

This chapter describes the methodological approach to lost languages pursued in this book.
It discusses the three types of Sprachdenkmäler such languages may have left behind …

La presente contribución concierne de nuevo el nombre de Chan Chan, la ciudad
prehispánica más grande en toda América. Recientemente, Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino …

This chapter presents a description of the Puquina language, a linguistic isolate that was
spoken in the South-Central Andes until the early 19th century. Our description is based on …

This chapter reviews the wide range of hypotheses on the origins and dispersal phases of
the main expansive language lineages of the Andes, especially Aymara and Quechua. It …