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Online documents:
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Crónica del Perú (html) The
Chapter XCIC from these chronicles by Pedro Cieza de León who, in the century
XVI, was the first european to describe the social and economic structure of
the Aymara people.
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Aymara and Quechua : Languages in Contact (html)
An essay by M.J. Hardman showing that Aymara and Quechua are not derived
from a common mother tongue, at least not within the last 50,000
years.
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Logical and Linguistic Problems of Social
Communication with the Aymara People (html) An essay of the Bolivian professor
Iván Guzman de Rojas proposing a trivalent logic model for the agglutinating
sufixes system of the Aymara language. The trivalent logic was introduced
first by the Polish professor J. Lukasiewicks in first decades of the XX
century. This logic consider three values instead of the two values either
true or false of the classic Aristotelian logic.
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The Search for the Perfect language (html) A Lecture
series given by Umberto Eco
discussing on a Perfect Language. Excerpts of this
Lecture about Aymara: ......"Recent studies have established Aymara is not
based on an Aristotelian two-valued logic (either True or False), but on a three-valued
logic it is, therefore, capable of expressing modal subtleties which other languages
can only capture through complex circumlocutions" .......
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A Majestic Frontier Outpost Chose Cooperation Over War (html)
by Patrick Ryan Williams, Michael E. Moseley, & Donna J. Nash.
"The people huddled in their impregnable fortress atop the high mesa called Cerro Baúl,
their last refuge as the mighty Inca legions swept through the valley far below.
With its sheer walls and single, tortuous route to the top, the citadel defied
attack by storm, so the Inca army laid siege to Cerro Baúl. For 54 days, the people
held out. But with little food and no water, they found their redoubt was not
only a grand bastion but also a grand prison...."
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Deviant Religion and Cultural Evolution: The Aymara Case (html)
By Ted C. Lewellen.
"The role that "deviant" religions can play in the processes of cultural evolution
has been largely overlooked by anthropologists. Among the Aymara Indians of Peru, a once
ostracized and persecuted group of seventh Day Adventists has assumed leadership as the
community system is transformed from a subsistence agriculture economy to a money economy.
To explain this emergence of a Protestant elite in a predominantly Catholic society, a
"Weberian" hypothesis, based on a causal relation between Protestantism and capitalism,
is tested and rejected. An alternative hypothesis, based on the adaptive value of deviance
in the evolutionary process proves more in accord with the data. It is shown that deviant
religion, while not a primary cause of cultural evolution, may be a powerful directive force".
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Kallawayas: The Nomadic Medicine Men of Bolivia (html)
By Debbie K. Becht
Kallawayas in Bolivia still heal the sick with traditional herbs and rituals that date
back to pre-Incan times. Their holistic approach involves a lengthy discussion with the
patient concerning the illness and an examination of the physical surroundings. A kallawaya
is received with respect and an awareness that his knowledge is based on long years of
training and that he acts according to a strict code of religious and moral values.
Faith and patience are vital for a kallawaya cure to be effective.
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Morfofonémica y Elisiones Vocálicas en
Aimara Sureño: Un Análisis no-Linear (MSWord)
By Omar H. Beas.
Presented at Taller de
Lingüística Amerindia organized by the students and professors of the
Linguistic area of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) at 1999/08/13.
Nowadays the author is studying toward a Doctoral degree at
University of Southern California (USC) and he can be contacted at
obeas@usc.edu
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Finite-State Morphological Analysis
Generation for Aymara (PostScript) By Kenneth R. Beesley
A prototype morphological analyzer/generator for Aymara which has been written using Xerox
finite-state technology and it is available on the Internet. In this article is
described the history of the project, its current implementation and plans for the future.
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A note on a Phonologically Conditioned
Selection of Verbalization Suffixes in Aymara (PostScript) By Kenneth R. Beesley
In this article is introduced the Beesley theory on the selection of ya vs.
the normal : for vowel lengthening.
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Atamiri: Sistema de traducción
interlingüe utilizando el lenguaje aymara (RTF) Por Ivan Guzmán de Rojas
A brief introduction to the ATAMIRI system for multilingual translation. This article is the
Spanish version of the work presented at New Directions in Machine Translations
Conference, Budapest,1988.
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El software de traducción
Atamiri (MSWord )Por Ivan Guzmán de Rojas
A work presented at VII Simposio Ibero-Americano de Terminología e Industrias da
Lingua, Lisboa, November 2000.
Other sources of Aymara Uta
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Home Library a small bibliographical list owned by the author of
this site
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Bookmarks Our page of links. Some information of this site
was drew out from these websites.
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