LING 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Chibchan Languages, Exogamy, Kawésqar Language
16 Nov 2016
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Languages of north and meso-america are diverse: na= ~300 languages in ~29 families. South american follows the same trend: 38 language families, 465 languages w/ 24 isolates. Cultural situation in sa very similar to australia and papua new guinea: cultural parity, rough terrain. A lot of quechuan languages in the south. Aymara only in southeastern region of peru: except for a small spot se of lima, called jaqaru (740 l1 speakers) Very poorly studied, and only recently identified as related to aymara. All regions in andes were not conquered by the inca (colombia and southern andes. More similar to the amazonian languages than andean: araucanian family. Mapudugun and huilliche: isolates (in southern patagonia) Review question: what contributed to the linguistic homogeneity (i. e. lack of linguistic diversity) in and around the andes: no central power existed in the amazon. Garifuna a creole language (a mixture of languages) Spoken in honduras, belize, guatemala, and nicaragua: carib.
