Aymar qillqat ullañani Mä awti uruwa, kunapachatixa uniwirsitä utana yatiqasqayata, sapaki kutt'askayata quta lakata, suma samarata..... Aymara Grammar A short introduction to the Aymara Grammar. It includes sonorized alphabet. Aymara music More than 30 MB of mp3 stereo 44.1 Hz/16 bits files containning native/mestizo music. Aymara geography(In Spanish) Geographical maps of the departamentos and provincias of Bolivia, Perú and Chile where the Aymara and the Jaqaru are spoken. Aymara FAQ Answers about this site and a lot of concise answers to most common and important questions on Aymara language, history and culture. Bookstore Support us buying your prefered books at Amazon.com. Please, use either our links or our searchers. Bookmarks Our recommended links. Visits since Sept. 2000

Aymara is an agglutinating language of roots and sufixes. This agglutination is given by the action of the sufixes over the roots according to rules which are the fundamental of the Aymara grammar. Presently Aymara is spoken by one million, six hundred thousand inhabitants from Bolivia, Peru and Chile; around lake Titicaca.

There are several theories on the language of Tiwanaku. In this site we are with the one which says that Aymara was partially spoken and therefore Tiwanaku was a multilingual state. After Tiwanaku's decadence there were many other Aymara cultures, among them the Lupaqa and the Qolla. In the XV century the Inca empire conquered the entire Titicaca Plateau region and never more arose a politicaly independent Aymara nation.

The harsh climate of the Titicaca Plateau forced the ancient Aymara people to discover a way to grow edible potatoes from an old, wild variety. Still today we can find wild potato around lake Titicaca, where it is called qamaqi ch'uqi (the fox's potato). Then, we can say that the legacy of the POTATO is the ancient Aymara culture's most important contribution to mankind.

Crónica del Perú(In Spanish) The Chapter XCIC from these chronicles by Pedro Cieza de León who, in the century XVI, was the first european to describe the social and economic structure of the Aymara people. Are the Aymara and Quechua derived from a single mother tongue? An essay by M.J. Hardman concluding that the answer is no, at least not within the last 50,000 years. Logical and Linguistic Problems of Social Communication with the Aymara People An essay of the Bolivian professor Iván Guzman de Rojas proposing a trivalent logic model for the agglutinating sufixes system of the Aymara language. The trivalent logic was introduced first by the Polish professor J. Lukasiewicks in first decades of the XX century. This logic consider three values instead of the two values either true or false of the classic Aristotelian logic. References Sources of this site.