In this paper we present the vowel lengthening in the framework of the methodological state of the grammatical argumentation according to Botha (1970). From twenty isoglosses that separate the northern Aymara (Umasuyu) from the southern Aymara (Orcosuyo), lengthening is one of the more representative isoglosse. By its nature, lengthening is not a phoneme but the product of five factors to take into account: 1) elition of continuous consonants between equal and different vowels, 2) lengthening in a group of internal consonants, 3) lengthening in suffixes with those consonants, 4) lengthening in compound words and 5) reanalysis as false lengthening.

In this article we present the place names of the Tambopata river basin in the Puno region. It constitutes only part of the broader study that we have carried out on the lexicon of place names, plants, animals, diseases and objects collected in the Tambopata river basin, which includes three districts in the province of Sandia: Yanahuaya, San Juan del oro and Putina in the province of Sandia. We analize linguistically – phonologically, lexically and semantically – the variation of the names related to the local language. BesideThe theory of dialectal variation, the method of linguistic geography or geolinguistics are applied to lift isoglosas with descriptive and interpretative focus, inspired in descriptive and functional linguistics. The hypothesis set up has been proven that the language and culture has being abandoned slowly. The aim of this study was to prove the dialectization ...

In the written language, we can lead ourselves by certain norms because of the typology of the language, as the phonological and morphophonemic processes, while in oral language, it is not necessary because it is implicit. When the writers get in the aimara coding, they have to respect the rules called sandhi. That is why we bring it up some aspects to be taken into account for writing prectices.

Vitality in the Aimara language can be assessed in several ways and you can be seen it as an endangered language. In this appraisal there are some factors arising from a ground of positive cultural diversity may influence the process of asserting a groups’s own identity or, to understand respect the identity of the others.In this last point the political (ie, attaining official status), religious, scholarly (chair of Aimara), literary (written sources), territorial, identity and ethnic resistance aspects can be seen as factors of vitality. But identity and self-esteem can also be reflected in the number of speakers, by social prestige, availability of media, and its use historical and cultural codification, and ways of expressing each other the words and by oneself.

The Aymara language has already entered a coding stage, and it has a long orthographic tradition, and has an official alphabet. But Aymara needs norms for writing (orthography) that take into account morphonology and syntax. The norms of writing must be based upon of the typology of Aymara Language.

Since 1583, when Spanish priests published a trilingual Doctrina Christiana, the Aymara language has had a long written tradition: dictionaries, vocabularies, dictionaries or grammars, if not all, have been bilingual (Spanish-Quechua, Spanish-Aimara, Portuguese-Guarani). The structure of a bilingual dictionary must conform to the standards of modern lexicography. Failure to do so may result in a defective product, since the preparation of a dictionary involves a careful treatment of grammatical and lexical aspects.

The paper presents the Aymara suffixes used by Bertonio and compares them with the current suffixes. The suffixes have been classified into derivational, inflectional and independent suffixes, both in nouns and verbs. The author describes processes of grammaticalization as well as lexicalization. The study aims at the revitalization of the language.

While America presents a diversity in languages, cultures, ecology, climate, ethnicity, this diversity should not be a problem, but a possibility, a richness, a strengthening that we all have a moral obligation to maintain and not to end.

Man, culture, language and identity, the four main aspects ofmulticulturalism, pluralism and interculture help us to understand andrespect diversity, which is the environment where we live. These aspectsare developed here; each was originated in America under diversity leavingindelible traces in our history. To ignore them, would be to ignore our past,our present. This article aims at clarifying these aspects denied altogethersince Cristopher Columbus carne to America. His sucessors didn't mind these aspects, only gold and other values meantsomething to them. Civilization meant only destruction and annihilation ofthe native traits.

Este trabajo es una muestra lexicográfica de alrededor de 450 nombres en aimara de lugares, plantas, animales, enfermedades y objetos recogidos en la cuenca del río Tambopata, la que comprende en su recorrido tres distritos: Yanahuaya, San Juan del Oro y Putina Punco. Desde los puntos de vista fonológico, léxico y semántico, se analiza la variación lingüística de los nombres que están relacionados con la lengua que hablan en la zona. Con esta investigación se comprueba la hipótesis planteada: que el abandono de la lengua y la cultura es lento. Además, con este trabajo se cumple el objetivo de estudiar la dialectalización del aimara, y los patrones de denotación y connotación. Al respecto, este estudio servirá para elaborar una cartografía lingüística y preparar diccionarios regionales. El trabajo, también, contribuirá al conocimiento de los saberes andinos que están...

Yatichaña aru pirwa o Vocabulario Pedagógico Aimara es una herramienta lingüística que permitirá a los docentes de escuelas EIB tener información sobre la terminología técnico-pedagógica en su lengua originaria y poder usarla en el desarrollo de su práctica docente, tanto a nivel oral como escrito. De esta forma podremos avanzar en la construcción de estilos escritos que se vayan estandarizando por acción de los hablantes de esta lengua indígena. Todo esto es necesario para desarrollar la propuesta pedagógica de EIB y promover competencias comunicativas en la lengua originaria, ya sea esta como lengua materna o segunda lengua de los estudiantes. El presente material es el resultado de un trabajo conjunto entre lingüistas, docentes, representantes de organizaciones indígenas y especialistas EIB, construido a partir de las experiencias de escritura desarrolladas hasta la fe...

Estudia el contacto de las lenguas aimara – castellano y las incidencias linguisticas y pedagógicas en la pronunciación. Busca comprobar en qué medida el contacto de lenguas aimara - castellano influye en la pronunciación de los estudiantes de las zonas aimara de Conima, Cochumbaya y Cairani. Determina la relación entre las lenguas aimara y castellano en los estudiantes bilingües aimara de Conima, Cochumbaya y Cairani; determinar la diferencia entre bilingüe coordinado e bilingüe incipiente en Conima, Cochumbaya y Cairani, y determina la diferencia de pronunciación entre el grupo alfabetizado y no alfabetizado en Conima, Cochumbaya y Cairani. Este estudio es de naturaleza teórica, descriptiva y comparativa. Desde el punto de vista metodológico, se trata de una investigación cualitativa. Los datos fueron colectados por medio de un cuestionario sociolinguistico y un corpus li...

Contiene relatos y canciones correspondientes a temas vinculados con la cultura y cosmovisión del pueblo Aimara.