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A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
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Spoken on the high Andean plains of Peru and Bolivia from Lake Titicaca to the salt flats south of Lake Poopó, and in northern Chile, Aymara is the most widespread member of the Jaqi language family whose sole other remnants, spoken in Yauyos, department of Lima, Peru, are the nearly extinct Kawki and the still vigorous Jaqaru. Aymara is estimated to have over a million and a half speakers in Bolivia, roughly 350,000 in Peru, and an unspecified number in Chile, bringing the total to nearly two million.
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The digraph nh is used for the velar nasal phoneme that occurs in the Aymara of Tarata (Peru), Carangas (Oruro, Bolivia), and Chile.
I would like to dedicate this article to the memory of my father, Ellis O. Briggs, a Career Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service. An earlier version of this paper entitied. “Current Status of Research on the Aymara Language” was read at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association at Houston in December 1977. Some of the research on which the paper is based was funded by graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the University of Florida, which I acknowledge with appreciation. I wish also to acknowledge the facilitation afforded me by the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación (INIDE) in Peru and by the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Lingüísticos (INEL) and the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA) in Bolivia. Acknowledgements to native speakers of Aymara who assisted me with this study are given in note 5. (N.B. Present-day usage usually omits a final accent mark on the word Aymara, as it is pronounced by native speakers with the stress on the second syllable.)