Re: USAGE: Outstanding Features - Andean Family

Charles <catty@...>
>There seems to be some lost relation between Aymara and Quechua.
>Perhaps you could re-create one?
You're talking about the Quechumaran hypothesys. I think it has a strong
support among some linguists like Cerron-Palomino. According to the
opinion of Dr. Hardman (University of Florida), there is no evidence to
state that Qhechua and Aymara are branchs of the same tree. I support
the falsehood of the Quechumaran Hypothesys too. Nevertheless I'm not
sure whether there is an entire proto-quechumaran reconstruction. I have
seen  some quechumaran* words* only.

Thanks for the links. A Dr. Hardman article on the issue is at

http://www.geocities.com/~arpasi/english/quechua.html

Alex C.