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The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. Th
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Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of t
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In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor
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Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazoni
A grammar of Yauyos Quechua
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This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the langu