Abstract
In Aymaryarawiku, by the Amautapoet Rufino Phaxi Limachi, a yarawi— “song” and/or “poem”—plainly inquires:
Janjamarakisa aymarsa parlktati,
janjamarakisa qhichwsa arsktati,
kawksa tuqitsa jutawayta,
kunäsa arumaxä,
kunäsa parlamaxa.
[It would seem you don’t speak Aymara,
it would seem you don’t palaver Quechua.
Where do you come from? Which language do you speak? What tongue? Which one?]1
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Passage from “Qulla aymara jaqitaki k’it’itasa” Rufino P’axsi Limachi, Aymar Yarawiku, (La Paz: Inmenaqubol, Chukiyawi, 1983), 30. Interchange by A. Ajens. A yaraw, or arawi, a South Andean song or lament, according to Guamán Poma, is a loan from Quechua, or Runa Simi, where Colla Aymara-speakers call it wanka, In light of the hypothesized Aymara and Quechua “common foundation,” Quechuaymara or proto-Aymara-Quechua (Cerrón Palomino, E., Hardman, M. J., etc.), we will leave the issue conspicuously halfopen here.
Ludovico Bertonio, [1612] Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, (La Paz: Radio San Gabriel, 1993).
For example, see Ludovico Bertonio, [1612] Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, (La Paz: Radio San Gabriel, 1993).
Manuel de Lucca, Diccionario práctico aymara-castellano, castellano-aymara, (La Paz-Cochabamba: Los Amigos del Libro, 1987); and Martha Hardman et al., Aymara: Compendio de estructura fonológica y gramatical, (La Paz: ILCA, 1998).
Martha Hardman et al., Aymara: Compendio de estructura fonológica y gramatical, (La Paz: ILCA, 1998).
R. Cerrón-Palomino, “El cantar del Inca Yupanqui y la lengua secreta de los incas,” Andina, 32 (1998).
Alfredo Torero, Idioma de los Andes, Linguística e Historia, 2nd ed. (Lima: Editorial Horizonte, 2005).
P. Ramírez de Aguila, [1639] Noticias políticas de Indias, (Sucre: División de Extensión Universitaria, 1978).
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Ajens, A. (2011). Umiri—Misturaski. In: Poetry After the Invention of América. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370678_8
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