Hola Lista[Jilatanaka, Kullakanaka]: Al parecer estan super-atareados en sus respectivas labores y ya no les sobra nada para aymaralist :-). Tal vez, "estirando la liga" un poco mas, puedan echarle una mirada al siguiente mensaje de Laura Jones, una nueva miembro de la lista. Ustedes consideran factible el paralelismo de los analfabetismos de la mayoria de los griegos y sanscritos? (como se llama al pueblo cuya el lengua es el sanscrito?) y de los aymaras? Jorge ---------- Mensagem Reenviada ---------- Subject: subscribe Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:01:14 -0500 From: "Laura Jones" <lmjones@ptd.net> I definitely am very interested in knowing more about the Aymara language, especially, I worked some years as a linguist, am familiar with Greek, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, all of which are linguistically very sophisticated languages - compared, for instance, to the European languages and English, which do not have the same linguistic perfection. So I was absolutely fascinated by the verb tables, the whole thing about the roots and suffixes. I think my brain has assimilated all it can for this session, but I'm definitely going to keep on learning all I can. I'm a little surprised that when the language is so tremendously sophisticate, I don't see anything about a literature or a writing system. Of course, the literature can be oral, Greek literature was transmitted orally for a long time, and even when the great tragedians, etc., came along, I never researched it because I never before was interested in the issue, but I bet most of the Greeks were still illiterate and knew the literature orally. I see you mention the decadence of Tiwanaku, maybe the language suffered a kind of eclipse at that time? I mean, I think Sanskrit is linguistically a very fine language, but now it is used mostly for scholarly treatises - although there is a very good grammar of Sanskirt, which I imagine might compare with Ludovico Bertonio's work on Aymara. I guess, come to think of it, that having a good grammar would be one way to preserve the purity of a language so it would not degenerate as the vernacular changed, already with koine Greek, the Greek language is linguistically declining - anyhow, I will read with interest anything you can send me. Thank you very much, Sincerely, Laura Jones ------------------------------------------------------- -- --
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I definitely am very interested in knowing more
about the Aymara language, especially, I worked some years as a linguist,
am familiar with Greek, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, all of which are
linguistically very sophisticated languages - compared, for instance, to the
European languages and English, which do not have the same linguistic
perfection. So I was absolutely fascinated by the verb tables, the whole
thing about the roots and suffixes. I think my brain has assimilated all
it can for this session, but I'm definitely going to keep on learning all I
can. I'm a little surprised that when the language is so tremendously
sophisticate, I don't see anything about a literature or a writing system.
Of course, the literature can be oral, Greek literature was transmitted orally
for a long time, and even when the great tragedians, etc., came along, I never
researched it because I never before was interested in the issue, but I bet most
of the Greeks were still illiterate and knew the literature orally. I see
you mention the decadence of Tiwanaku, maybe the language suffered a kind of
eclipse at that time? I mean, I think Sanskrit is linguistically a very
fine language, but now it is used mostly for scholarly treatises - although
there is a very good grammar of Sanskirt, which I imagine might compare with
Ludovico Bertonio's work on Aymara. I guess, come to think of it, that
having a good grammar would be one way to preserve the purity of a language so
it would not degenerate as the vernacular changed, already with koine Greek, the
Greek language is linguistically declining - anyhow, I will read with interest
anything you can send me. Thank you very much, Sincerely, Laura
Jones
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