Quechumaran languages
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| Quechumaran | |
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Andes |
| Linguistic classification: | Quechumaran |
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Quechumaran is a language-family proposal that unites Quechua and Aymara. Quechuan languages, especially those of the south, share a large amount of vocabulary with Aymara. Kaufman[1] finds the proposal reasonably convincing, but Wlillem Adelaar, a Quechua specialist believes the similarities to be due to borrowing during long-term contact.[2] Lyle Campbell suspects that the proposal is valid, but does not consider it to have been conclusively proven.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 13–74.
- ^ Adelaar, Willem (1992). "Quechuan Languages". In W. Bright. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 3. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 303–10.
- ^ Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 188, 273–283. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
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