Re: [ranchos] "tarayata"

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

cool!!! Maybe Emilie's mom was South American. Emilie why not join the Peruvian or Bolivian Rootsweb email groups or just post a message on their message boards and ask what Tarayata means. You never know.

here's the URL for the Peruvian Message board:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.southam.peru.general

joseph

latina1955@... wrote:

I just looked up "aymara" region, it appears to be a language spoken by indigenous people in South America...hmmmm....I wonder, if there were any "transplants" from South America to Mexico?

Aymara is the language of the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over a million speakers, and it is one of the official languages of Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken in Chile and Argentina.

Many linguists believe that Aymara is related to its more widely-spoken neighbour, Quechua. This claim, however, is disputed — although there are indeed similarities, critics say that these may simply be the result of prolonged interaction between the two languages or an areal feature, not a shared origin.

The Aymara language is an inflected language, and has a subject-object-verb word order