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Amazonian Kichwa Language and Culture

140 contact hours

Dates: June 10-July 19, 2024 (6 weeks)

Instructors:

Dr. Tod D Swanson, Arizona State University

Dr. Janis Nuckolls

About the Course

This course introduces graduate students to the Kichwa language and moves them toward fluency as quickly as possible.  Exercises are geared to teach the performative language skills needed to carry out research or other kinds of work with Kichwa communities. Throughout the course, Kichwa language is used as a window into Kichwa culture and worldview.  Because the graduate students taking the course tend to be highly motivated but at varying levels of competence an effort is made to individualize instruction often tailoring language instruction to the research topic or needs of the student.  The study of Kichwa songs and videotaped oral literature will help to keep things lively.

 

In compliance with FLAS eligible Kichwa requirements this course offers

•140 hours of in-class instruction over a period of 6 weeks

•Pre and post-course testing assess progress toward the performance goals set forth in USDE IRIS testing instruments.

Goals: 

 

Become competent in Runa social, aesthetic and emotional interaction.

Become competent in Runa language for engaging the natural world.

Become competent in language for Runa philosophy of the human body, health and illness.

Become competent at asking questions, interviewing, and keeping a conversation going.

Become competent at translating Runa testimonies and oral history.

Required Text 

Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson, Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to grammar, ecology, and discourse.  Lexington Books, 2020.

Amazonian Kichwa Songs (with learning aids for study and memorization)

Grading Policy

Students are given a letter grade

Attendance and participation 40%

6 weekly tests:  10% each= 60%

Carry out, transcribe, and translate an interview in Kichwa.

Translate a short Kichwa text.

Be able to tell a joke in Kichwa that gets people to laugh. 

 

Goals:

Objectives:  On completing this class the student should be able to

 

1.  Make social introductions, use greeting and leave-taking expressions.

2.  Talk about spatial movement so as to be able to ask or give directions on how to get from one place to another. 

3.  Ask and answer simple questions about date and place of birth, nationality, marital status, occupation, 

4.  Make basic living arrangements such as renting a room or calling a taxi.  

5.  Be able to make social introductions and use greeting and leave-taking expressions.

6.  Buy needed items in a store. 

7.  Be able to understand simple sentences on these topics performed at normal speed by native speakers. 

8.  Be able to construct basic sentences in the present and past tenses with the correct use of the direct object marker and word order.  
9.  Be able to ask and answer questions of how something is done
10.  Be able to ask and answer questions of why something occurs.  
11.  Be able to carry out a simple interview on the demographics of a community

 

Course Schedule Monday- Thursday  (No class on Fridays)

Morning:

9:00-9:45 Kichwa Grammar.  Nuckolls 

10:00-11:45 Conversational Kichwa-   Nelly Shiguango, Norma Ruiz

12:00-1:00 Private review and study time

1:00-2:00  Lunch

 

Afternoon

2:00-3:45  Reading and analysis of Kichwa texts and oral literature. Swanson

4:00-5:00. Kichwa lyrics and music

Week 1 

  • Overview: In this unit you will learn to use basic greetings; to construct sentences in the present tense using  pronouns and the accusative marker -ta.   You will also learn to ask basic questions using who? (pita) and What? (ima) and appropriate question markers -ta/ra and -chu, 

  • Learning Materials:

       Nuckolls and Swanson, Introduction and Chapters 1-4. 

Simple information questions with -ta/-ra and answers (Quizlet)

Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Kichwa Literature & Anthropological Linguistics

  • Module 1: Test

Week 2     

  • Overview.     In this unit you will learn to use the past tense, to locate events in time and time and temporal movement,how to use the language of place and directionality (mai-, -ma, -manda, game),  the direct imperative, -was (also, too), and  -wa/n (with).   You will also learn how to ask “Why?” ; and to construct answers that express purpose.

 

Grammar and Vocabulary Learning Materials

    Language of Place

 

    Time, Seasonal Movement and Weather

Kichwa Literature & Anthropological Linguistics

Clara Santi, Waranga Sisa Warmi

Vocabulary for Clara Santi, Waranga Sisa Warmi

Feeling the solitude of the Kukuli bird

Vocabulary for Elodia Dagua, Kukuli 

Peter Gow, "Helpless - the affective preconditions of Piro social life."

Belaunde, Luisa Elvira. The Convivial Self and the Fear of Anger Anger among the Airo-Pai of Amazonian Peru.”  

Swanson and Reddekopp

  • Test

  • Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Overview.   In this unit you will learn to recognize grammatical forms that are key to understanding oral literature including same subject marker -sha and switch reference -kpi, attributive suffix -k as well as the and distant past tense marker -shka .

Learning Materials

 

Co and switch reference suffixes -sha/kpi (Quizlet)

Literature and Linguistic Anthropology

 

Week 4  Field trip to the Río Curaray

​In this unit you will learn to use language to talk about the forest and its species, the weather, the flow and rising of rivers, as well as the language of humor.   

Plant Vocabulary 1

Plant Vocabulary 2

Kinds of Plants

Vocabulary mammals

​Looking Like the Land

Ceramic Art and Beauty 

Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Week 5 Nuckolls and Swanson, Chapters 6, 7, 8, 10

Wednesday

Weather ideophones with sound

Arranging the length of a stay

Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Weather and the Human Emotions of Love and Sadness 

​Role play - Kichwa Townhall.    Debate with -kpi -sha

Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

  • Module 5: Learning Materials

Ceramic Art and Beauty 

The economic logic of envy and shamanic harm

  • Module 5: Test

  • Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Week 6 Nuckols and Swanson, Introduction and Chapters 17-20

​Advanced

Conditional past with-sha -akpi

 

  • Lack of abstraction in indigenous languages

  •      Shared Body: The Amazonian Kichwa Relational Self and its Implications for Language. 

  •      In class practice active listening to Kichwa with short videos related to shared body:  Eulodia Dagua, "Our Babies Cry       Like the Animals We Eat,"  "Newborn Child Dies Like the Snake His Father Killed.”

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Thursday Afternoon:  Round table discussion of the week's progress and planning on how to acheive the next week's goals.

Materials for Beginning Kichwa Grammar

 

Chapter  2:  The present tense.  The verb ana “to be”.   Personal pronouns.

     

     Exercises:  

     Pronouns (Quizlet)

     Present tense (Quizlet) 

     Chapter 2. Practice 2. Questions and answers in third person singular (present or present perfect). 

     Chapter 2. Practice 3.  Questions in third person plural.

     Chapter 2. Practice 4. Questions in 2nd person plural with answers in 1st person plural (present or present perfect).

     Lack of abstraction in indigenous languages

     Shared Body: The Amazonian Kichwa Relational Self and its Implications for Language. 

     In class practice active listening to Kichwa with short videos related to shared body:  Eulodia Dagua, "Our Babies Cry       Like the Animals We Eat,"  "Newborn Child Dies Like the Snake His Father Killed.”

Chapter 3: Talking about family  Direct object marker -ta;  -yuk, charina, consanguineal kinship terms

     Possessive suffix -yuk

     Yes/No Questions with -yuk

     Kinship terms   (Quizlet exercise)

     Family and kinship terms for consanguineal (blood) relations.

     Asking questions about family.  Telling about one’s family with charina ‘to have’ and direct object marker –ta, and possessive marker -yuk

     Use of the Present Tense with Object Markers (PowerPoint)      

     Chapter 3, Practice 1 (Napo dialect): Questions about relatives using -yuk, -cha, ana+2nd pers; Answers with mana+ pers. 

     Chapter 3, Practice 1 (Pastaza dialect): Questions about relatives using -yuk, -cha, ana+2nd pers; Answers with mana+ pers. 

     Chapter 3 Practice 2 Questions and answers about relatives using -charina, with -chu and -mi; Answers with mana+ 1st pers. Vocabulary

 

4:00-5:00 Kichwa Lyrics and Music-  Nazario Alvarado 

​     Lesson 4: Types of questions:  Ima, pi, Information questions with question marker -ta/-ra;  Open-ended questions with -ga, The causative suffix –chi; polite/non-immediate  imperative.

     Powerpoint:  Machakuy sapura mikun: practice with "pi", present tense, and the direct object

     PowerPoint:  The Imperative

     4.1   Practice information questions with "ima" + question marker -ta;

     4.2  Practice answering the following information questions which ask pi ‘who?’ 

     4.3 Practice asking and answering the following information questions for third person plural subjects, which you will insert in your answers.

     4.4 Practice turning the following commands into polite, non-immediate imperatives.

     4.5 Practice the open-ended question by having someone read each of the following statements and then ask you about what you are doing.

     4 Exercise 1 with -chi. Translate or match the following sentences.

     PowerPoint on -chi/--ri

     Lesson 5: Affirming, negating and evading     More on yes/no questions.  Replying to a yes/no question with a negative statement;                   Evasion and echo questions.  Plural suffixes

     Exercises on questions with -chu and -ra

     Sharing Food in Kichwa Language and Culture

     Performative skill for IRIS testing:  Ordering a meal in Kichwa

     Food vocabulary (Quizlet)

     Work on verbs: munana, gustana, ministina, charina, ushana, mikuna and upina.

​     Lesson 6: Articulating the perspectives of self and other,  Articulating the perspectives of self and other

     The speaking self –mi;  -mi + ana = mana;  the voice of the ‘other’ –shi; affinal kinship terms.
     

     Perspectival Speech and the Kichwa Perception of Honesty or "Why Anthropologists are Liars.”

     Reading:  Janis B. Nuckolls and Swanson, Tod D. (2014). "Earthy Concreteness and Anti- Hypotheticalism in                       Amazonian Quichua Discourse.    Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol.        12: Iss. 1, Article 4, 48-60.

     Lesson 7: Human and nonhuman bodies

     Overlap of human, plant and animal body parts  

     Impersonal verbs 

     First person object suffix -wa

     Possessive markers

     Possessives (Quizlet)

     Possessives with nouns (Quizlet)

     Possessive pronouns (Quizlet)

     Possessives with nouns (Quizlet)

     Possessive suffix -yuk

     Possessive + object marker in the sense of "for x."

     Ideophones for bodily movements and configurations

     Lesson 8: Expressing thoughts, feelings, processes, and enumeration

     Reflexive suffix –ri

     The cognitive suffix –ri

     The bodily configurational suffix –ri

     The low animacy suffix –ri

     8. 1 -chi and reflexive -ri. Translate or match using one of the verbs in parenthesis. 

     8. Exercise 2 with -chi, -ri. Choose the best verb with or without -ri or -chi to complete each sentence, and add the correct ending for the present tense.

     Exercises with numbers: 

     8. 4 Answer the following questions using Kichwa numbers.

     8 exercise 5. Translate the following numbers into Kichwa

     

Materials for Beginning Kichwa Grammar.  Direct Imperative, -was (also, too, and), -wa/n (with)

     Lesson 9: Suffixes of instrumentality, accompaniment and the imperatives  directness​

     The instrumental and comitative –wan (PP) ​

     The despitative –was

     The immediate imperative forms

     PowerPoint:  The Imperative

     Negating the immediate imperative forms

     The first person plural imperative –shun

     9 exercise 1. Inclusive/despitative -was Fill in the blanks below by suffixing the word indicated with the most appropriate suffix, using either -wan or was.

     9. 1 Practice making sentences with the instrumental -wa by suffixing it to the appropriate noun in each of the following sets of words. Vary your person/number usage and be sure to add the direct object marker -ta wherever necessary.

     Exercise with negative imperative in 2nd person singular

Create a power point in Kichwa describing your childhood.    Describe the places using the participle + locative construction.  Present your power points.  

 

Work with translation of Kichwa poem, "Only and Owl Will Call.”

     Lesson 10: Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and Exclusivity

     Nuckolls and Swanson, Chapter 10   Suffixes of togetherness and separateness.

     10 Practice 1  Make simple sentences with each of the following -naku verbs, using the given pronoun.
     10 Writing Exercise 1 Choose the best suffix, -ndi or -pura foreach of the following sentences

     10 . Practice 2 Add suffix -lla to change the meaning to 'just', 'only', or 'very'.

Kichwa language for talking about the weather. Performance goal:  Be able to make small talk about the weather.

Vocabulary for Only and Owl will Call

Only an Owl Will Call

3:00-4:00 Kichwa Songs and Music.    Nazario Alvarado

Part 2: Space and Time 

     Lesson 11: Purpose, directionality, duration, color  durative -u

     11 Practice 1.  Imamandata aswangi?  Answer questions with purposive -ngaw forms.   

     11 Practice 3.  Asking "why" questions with ima raygura and answering  purposive -ngak. The durative suffix –u

     Purposive suffix -ngak (Quizlet)

     -ngak PowerPoint exercise with pictures

     11.3 Questions with "Ima raygura llaktama ringichi? Answers with gak

     11.7 Questions with ima raygura yurara kuchunawn? Answers with purposive -gak

     Kichwa descriptions of color

     Colors (Quizlet)

     Mindy Weisberger,  "Why is the color blue so rare in nature? Livescience.com

Task:  Write the 10 best "why" questions you can in your chosen "islands of language competence" using imamandara or imaraygura.  Write the answers to these questions.  Perfect the questions and answers with a native speaker.  Put them into Quizlet.  Memorize them then work in groups practicing the why questions of your classmates.

​Place in Kichwa Language and Culture 

Reading: Joseph Bastien, Mountain of the Condor

Work with Quichua oral literature text, “Santu Urku.”

     Lesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense  (continued).

     Directional suffixes –ma and –manda

     Exercise with -ma and -manda 

     -ma and -manda with personal pronouns and names   (example "Juanbakma")

     Exercise: Supply the appropriate question with ima or may for answers with -ma and -manda (Quizlet)

     The immediate imperative forms –i and –ichi

     Reading:  Swanson, “Relatives of the Living Forest.”

     Further work on the language of place.

     Asking and Giving Directions (PowerPoint) 

     Asking Directions in Kichwa

     Place Vocabulary

     Lesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense

     The attributive –k   PP

     -k + mani  Quizlet

     12.1 Attributive constructions. Practice making attributive constructions using verb roots along with mana 'to be' (-mi + ana):

     12.2 Attributive + immediate imperative (Pastaza). Practice constructions which use one attributive and one immediate singular imperative verb, using the following sets. Be sure to add any case suffixes necessary for words other than verbs.

     Immediate imperative (Quizlet)

     12.3 In the next exercise, use either -y/-bi, -ma, or -manda, depending on which makes best sense.

​Work with Quichua oral literature text, “Trees Call Rain.”

     Lesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense -pi; -ta; past tense marker -ra/-ka

     Lesson 12.b PowerPoint

     The past tense (Quizlet)

      PowerPoint:  The Truck Fell into the Canyon: Dialogue with Past Tense

     Change adjectives to adverbs by adding adverbial suffix  -ta (Quizlet)

     Ideophonic adverbs

     locative suffix -pi

     12.3  Exercise:   Complete the sentence using either -y/-bi, -ma, or -manda, depending on which makes best sense.

     Lesson 13: Habituality, complex movement suffixes, delimitation   habitual -k; -mu; -gri; -gama -kta

     Chapter 13  PP

     Habitual aspect with attributive –k  

     The cislocative suffix –mu

     The translocative suffix –gri

     Verb stem +-y + -rina; Example: apay rikani  (Quizlet)

      Limitive suffix -kta

     The –gama, -kta, and –ta adverbial suffixes

     Exercise with past tense (Pastaza)

     Past tense with -ma, -manda, -pi

     More practice with past tense using questions + -chu or -ra (Quizlet)

     Attributive -k (Quizlet)

     Attributive -k as adjective with nouns (Quizlet)
     Attributive k with m-ana (Quizlet)

     Attributive -k with past tense as habitual action (Quizlet)

     Attributive with n + v-durative-k-object marker (Quizlet)

 

Work with Kichwa oral literature text, “Trees Call Rain.”

      Lesson 14: The Co-reference suffix -sha

      Co-reference suffix –sha

     -sha verb’s action simultaneous with or independent of main verb’s action

     -sha verb facilitating action of main verb

     negating a –sha verb

     questioning a –sha verb

     nina + -sha

      Lesson 15: The Switch-Reference suffix -kpi

      Switch reference suffix–kpi

      If/then –kpi constructions

      When/while/after x happens/y happens –kpi constructions 

      Sequencing of –sha and -kpi

      Exercises with -sha/-kpi in if.... then constructions

      -sha/-kpi as if/then

      -sha/-kpi as if/then with nina (If you say/want...)

      -sha/-kpi as if/then with past tense conditional (If you had I would have).

      -sha/-kpi in temporally sequenced actions

     -sha simultaneous actions- (adverbial)

     -sha/-kpi because (when one verb is the cause of the other)

     -sha/-kpi combined with future tense verbs

     -sha/-kpi combined with past tense verbs

     -sha in polite imperative construction (dame haciendo)

      Practice using -sha/kpi to construct 2 word sentences

     -sha as exaggeration -nsha (pastaza -shá)

Reading and translation of Kichwa text: Rayo amarunda apin "Thunder Catches Boas"

     Lesson 16: The Present Perfect -shka

     Present perfect -shka

     Narrative past –shka

     Grammatical characteristics of -shka

     Promises, threats, and other expressions with –shka

     Complex subjects with -shka

     Complex predicates with -ska-ra

     Translation and analysis and discussion of poem Uksha Urku

     Vocabulary for lyrics to Uksha Urku

     Lesson 17: Talking about the future 

     Practice with verbs in future tense (Quizlet)

     Talking about the future

     The compound future –nga + rana ‘going to do something’ construction

     Questioning the compound future

     Exhortative future constructions

     Useful expressions for talking about temporality

     Attributive future 

     Exercise with the future tense -nga rana

     “On the future and time in Kichwa thinking and language.”

     Reading and translation of Kichwa oral literature text, Luisa Cadena, "On the return of the animals and the dead."

      Lesson 18: Varieties of compound verbs 

     Nominalizing verbs with –y suffix

     Passive -y verb +tukuna for passives

     Completive –y verb + pasana  for perfective aspect 

     Inceptive –y verb + kallarina for inceptive action 

     General principles of sentence construction: subject deletion; subject transposition

     18.1 Nominalized -y verb +tukuna for passives 

     Nominalized –y verb + pasana  for perfective aspect 

     18.2  Answer the following questions by making use of the words in parentheses. 

     Example: Imata tukushun? (mikuna, puma) ‘What will become of us?’

     Mikuy tukushun pumamanda. ‘We’ll end up being eaten by a jaguar.’

     18.3 Practice expressing the completive construction by responding to direct imperatives.

     Example: Mikwi! 'eat!' Ña mikwi pasanimi! 'Well I've (already) eaten!'

     18.4 Nominalized –y verb + kallarina for inceptive action 

     18.5

     18.6

     Exercise with -y pasana and -y tukuna

      Work with -sha; -kpi

Task:  Write the 10 best "how" questions you can in your chosen "islands of language competence." Write the answers to these questions using verbs with -sha for the dependent steps toward the main goal.  Use verbs with -kpi for the outside or contingent circumstances affecting how you carry out the task.    Perfect the questions and answers with a native speaker.  Put them into Quizlet.  Memorize them then work in groups practicing the why questions of your classmates.

Kichwa Perspectivalism 

Readings:  Viveiros de Castro,  "Amerindian Perspectivalism."

Reading and translation of Quichua oral literature text, Pedro Andi, “The Musician Wren”.

Reading: Rayo amarunda apin "Thunder Catches Boas"

     Lesson 19: Conditionality, ordering and connecting ideas

     The conditional mood

     The relative order of meaningful elements

     When order is not strictly regulated

     19.1;19.2;19.3; 19.1 Translate the following conditional sentences

     19.2  Form sentences using instrumental, locative, or direct object markers. Assume subjects are deleted. Inflect verb for present using         123 word order. Example: Alberto/upichina/aswa > Aswawan masha Albertota upichinma (123 present conditional)

     19. Practice 3 Now construct sentences, again following the 123 or 321 order, using the following word sets, and also, including -gama or -manda suffixes wherever possible. Assume that subjects have been deleted, and use the 'going-to-do' compound future

     Conditional present tense

     Conditional past tense 

     Conditional present tense sentences

     Conditional past tense sentences

     Conversational practice with telling about your family in Kichwa.

     Translation of Quichua story, “Baltzar Gualinga Wangana Kuraga.”

     Lesson 20: Evidentiality, speech reports, Inchoative -ya, and Purposive -chun

     Evidential -cha

     Inchoative –ya 

     The subjunctive

     Tools for sequencing actions

     Translate the following quoted speech sentence.

     20. Writing Exercise 1.   Dubative questions with -chuy?

     20. Writing Exercise 2.  Expressing perspective with nisha nin   Translating quoted speech.

     20. Practice 1 Practice turning subjunctive clauses into negated subjunctive clauses.

     20. Practice 2 with the subjunctive -chun

     Further practice on the subjunctive.

     Review and practice for IRIS assessment.

     Conversational practice with interviewing in Kichwa about family

     Translation of Kichwa story, “Ishki Kandu Rumimanda”

     More work on the subjunctive.

     Practice simple reporting about a news event in Kichwa.

     Further practice on the subjunctive.

     Review and practice for IRIS assessment.

     Practice telling about your life and job in Kichwa

     Translation of Kichwa story, “Balatzar Gualingaina Wangana Kuraga.”

 

Resources

IRIS Testing instrument

Present Tense

Present tense(Quizlet)

Direct object marker -ta/ra

Use of the Present Tense with Object Markers (PowerPoint)                              

Infinitive + object marker with munana

Machakuy sapura mikun: practice with the direct object

Pita ñambira riksin. Dialogue with direct object.

Exercises with -chi and -ri

Simple information questions with -ta/-ra and answers (Quizlet)

Past Tense

Verbs in past tense (Tena)

Exercise with past tense (Pastaza)

More practice with past tense using questions + -chu or -ra (Quizlet)

PowerPoint:  The Truck Fell into the Canyon: Dialogue with Past Tense

Future Tense

Exercise with the future tense -nga rauna 

Attributive -k

Attributive -k

Attributive with object marker -kta

Attributive -k + m-ana

Attributive -k  with past tense (habitual action "used to" ___)

Co and switch reference suffixes -sha/kpi (Quizlet)

 

-sha/-kpi as if/then

-sha/-kpi as if/then with nina (If you say/want...)

-sha/-kpi as if/then with past tense conditional (If you had I would have).

-sha/-kpi in temporally sequenced actions

-sha simultaneous actions- (adverbial)

-sha/-kpi because (when one verb is the cause of the other)

-sha/-kpi combined with future tense verbs

-sha/-kpi combined with past tense verbs

-sha in polite imperative construction (dame haciendo)

-sha as exaggeration -nsha (pastaza -shá)

Weather phrases with -sha and pagarina

Adjectives

Numbers

Adverbs

Conjunctions

although  -llata

More on although, but, change of intention

Conditional

Conditional present tense

Conditional past tense 

Conditional present tense sentences

Conditional past tense sentences

Complex subjects with -shka

Complex predicates with -ska-ra

Imperatives

Immediate imperative

Achuar Immediate imperative (plural)

Polite imperative with -sha kuway

Exercise with negative imperative in 2nd person singular

Indirect speech with nina

iyaiwa "with the idea of

Nominalized -y verb + pasana for perfective aspect

nominalized verb -y + tukuna for passive

nominalized verb -y + apina and kachan

-nay as desire

-naypi if/the with imperative

-llata

 

Place

Exercise with -ma and -manda 

Exercise: Supply the appropriate question with ima or may for answers with -ma and -manda (Quizlet)

locative suffix -pi

Asking Directions in Quichua

Directions

Place Vocabulary

 

Possessives

Possessives (Quizlet)

Possessives with nouns (Quizlet)

Possessive suffix -yuk

Possessive + object marker in the sense of  for_______

Purposive -ngak/ngawa

Purposive suffix -ngak (Quizlet)

-ngak PowerPoint exercize with pictures

 

Questions

Common Questions

Beginning information questions

Questions with -ra and -chu

Supply appropriate question ima/may for answers with -ma/ -manda (Quizlet)

Wondering or rhetorical questions with -y and -cha

-s even hough/ no matter how much

Kichwa Question Words

Time and Temporal Movement

Vocabulary of time and temporal movement

Arranging the length of a stay/ practice for talking about duration

Vobabulary and Semantics

Quichua plant names matched to scientific names

Age sets

Colors

Computer terms

Overlapping vocabulary for human, plant, and animal body parts 

Humor   (Swanson, Asichina, the Language of Kichwa Humor)

Kinship Terms

Ayllumanda Rimana: Speaking of Relatives

Phrases for recording and interviewing

Compound verbs with shayana, sirina, llutarina, etc.

Buying, Selling, and Economy

 

Comparison

kwinta/shina  "like"

yallina

Janis B. Nuckolls and Swanson, Tod D. (2014). "Earthy Concreteness and Anti- Hypotheticalism in Amazonian Quichua Discourse," Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 4, 48-60

 

Ordering a meal

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