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Urban, Matthias. 2019. Is there a Central Andean Linguistic Area? A View from the Perspective of the “Minor” Languages. Journal of language contact 12 (2) : 271–304.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language area | language contact

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper suggests that there is no evidence for a clear-cut linguistic area comprising the entire Central Andes narrowly defined, and that perceived homogeneity is partially due to an overemphasis on the largest and surviving Central Andean language families, Quechuan and Aymaran.