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Language Dispersal Beyond FarmingEdited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
[Not in series 215] 2017
► pp. 25–45
Chapter 2Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara agropastoral terms
Reconstruction and contact patterns
Nicholas Q. Emlen | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Willem F. H. Adelaar | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
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 ancient Andes. The patterns of lexical borrowing between the two lineages offer a novel empirical perspective on how early Quechuan and Aymaran speakers lived. When the many layers of borrowing are stripped away, it is clear that both were engaged in agropastoral economies before the languages first came into contact. Furthermore, the presence of terms from a wide range of ecological zones, from the high grasslands to (in the case of Quechua) the tropical lowlands, suggests that both languages cross-cut elevations in a manner consistent with the typically Andean system of ecological complementarity.
Keywords: Quechua, Aymara, Andes, agropastoralism, language contact
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The Quechua-Aymara relationship
- 2.1Pre-Proto-Quechua and Pre-Proto-Aymara
- 3.Agricultural and pastoral terminology in the early Quechuan and Aymaran lineages
- 3.1The innovative character of some Proto-Quechua agropastoral terms
- 4.Conclusions
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Notes -
References
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Published online: 21 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.215.02eml
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.215.02eml
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