Linguistic stratigraphy : recovering traces of lost languages in the Central Andes / Matthias Urban.

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Linguistic stratigraphy : recovering traces of lost languages in the Central Andes / Matthias Urban.

9783031421020 (electronic bk.)
3031421027 (electronic bk.)
9783031421013
3031421019

Cham : Springer, [2023]

©2023

English

1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) : illustrations (some color)

10.1007/978-3-031-42102-0 doi

PM5571

417/.7

This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region. The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Caąr in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.

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