History and Language in the Andes Heggarty P.
History and Language in the Andes Heggarty P. The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world…
Specifikacia History and Language in the Andes Heggarty P.
History and Language in the Andes Heggarty P.
The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke.
This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate
Death in the Andes