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The so-called 'Aymara altiplanico', or simply Aymara, is an Andean language spoken by one million and six hundred thousand people round the area that surrounds Lake Titicaca. More precisely, according to the last censuses taken in Bolivia, Chile (1992) and Peru (1993), there are 1.237.658 Bolivian speakers of Aymara, 296.465 Peruvian speakers, and 48.477 Chilean speakers of the language. From the 19th. century onwards some researchers, such as Antonio Raymondi, Sebastian Barranca and Julio C. Tello have come to believe in the linguistic kinship between Jaqaru and Kawki (the last of these being spoken at the time, in several of the high plateau regions round Lima) and the Aymara spoken on the Titicaca plateau. It was the linguistic research carried out by Marta J. Hardman during the 1960s that provided strong supporting evidence for this hypothesis. Hardman was able to show that the Aymara spoken on the Titicaca plateau, Jaqaru, and Kawki, belong to the same family of languages, to which she gave the name Jaqi. Independently, Alfredo Torero, came to name this family Aru. Recently, Rodolfo Cerron Palomino, proposed that it be given the name Aymara. Cerron Palomino's argument rests on the need to find a pattern of symmetry, regarding the terminology applied to Aymara language and in relation to the Quechua family, for which names such as simi were discarded as unacceptable. In these first years of the 21st. century, according to information that we have, we can say with great affliction, that Kawki might already be extinct; while Jaqaru spoken round Tupe (Yauyos), by only a few thousand Tupi people, most of whom are living in the city of Lima, faces the fate of its own agonising death. This in turn makes us think, that within one or two generations Jaqaru, daughter language in the Aymara family, will also come to be one of the extinct languages of the world.

The trivalent logic of Aymara

Greek science is the classic example, par excellence, of a normal science, whose paradigms, according to Kuhn (TK), have lasted thousands of years. The geometry of Euclid (330 BC) reigned triumphant and undisputed until the introduction of non-Euclidean geometries by Gauss (1777-1855), Lobachewsky (1793-1856), Boylai (1802-60), and Riemann (1826-66). The logic of Aristotle (382-322 BC) is even more resistant to change because it is immersed in the languages which reflect the Western mode of thought. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), philosopher and Professor of Logic at Koenigsberg, was fully convinced that "Aristotle did not omit any essential aspect of knowledge; it only remains for us to become more precise, methodical, and orderly." The research of the Polish thinker J. Lukasiewicz was a sharp departure from the Aristotelian interpretation of logic. Lukasiewicz, a leading member of the Warsaw school of logic, published his paper "0 logice trojwartoscioweJ " ("On Trivalent Logic") in 1920. This publication, the point of departure for non-Aristotelian systems of logic, was not translated into Spanish until 1975 (JL1)...

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Ayrampitu Q'ajilu (kajelo) tradicional aymara dedicada a la flor del ayrampo. Conjunto Hermanos Paniagua de Puno. Letra Aymar P'ampachawi (Ceremonia Aymara) Poesía aymara acerca de una ceremonia fúnebre aymara (jarawi) con acompañamiento de los pinkillus del Conjunto Musical Comunidad Tambocusi de Larecaja, La Paz. Letra Mayata Tunkaru,(Del 1 al 10) Contando y cantando en Aymara con Los Awatiñas. Letra

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