Dialectal variation of Aymara in the northern and southern areas of Lake Titicaca; [Variação dialetal do Aymara nas partes norte e sul do lago Titicaca]

Pari F.H. · Lengua y Sociedad (2024) · DOI: 10.15381/lengsoc.v23i2.25483

Resumen

We intend to determine the existence of two variants of the so-called Peruvian Aymara, which is recognised by Briggs (1976) as a single dialect that she called Northern Aymara, comprising the Peruvian Altiplano and northern Bolivia. For this reason, our aim is to determine the isoglosses and linguistic characteristics that differentiate the varieties of Northern and Southern Aymara in Peru, which serve to establish the linguistic-geographical boundaries between the two dialects. The research is descriptive in nature, and is based on theories of dialectal variation and linguistic changes. The most representative commu-nities located to the north, south and west of Lake Titicaca in Peru were considered as the fieldwork area. The interviews were carried out with 26 Aymara speakers between 12 and 70 years of age, preferably monolingual Aymara speakers, bilingual in Aymara-Spanish. A total of 660 variants in consonants, vowels, morphemes and 100 lexemes were recorded and interpreted in terms of not variation, which were formalised in 74 brief rules in terms of segmental linguistic changes, either by mode of articulation, point of articulation or sonority and other features such as consonant and vowel harmony, elision, addition, vowel lengthening and metathesis. © Los autores.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos