Aymaran Names
Hi,I was looking for a place or resource where I could find Aymaran Bolivian names.
Is there anyone that could help me?Thank you kindly,
Carlo
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Sorry ...that's a tough one. I don't think there's too much available on the web in that dialect. Perhaps you could start something?I'm sure you googled it, but I only found the following, which I'm sure you've purused ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_language
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I googled "Aymaran names" and got a lot of irrelevant stuff, plus this snippet:
'Quispe Ramirez feels the uprising has accomplished something positive. "Look at the 2002 elections--white people began to respect people with [common Aymaran] names like Quispe, Mamani and Huanca," he said. "We have senators who are Aymara. Felipe [Quispe] became a leader because of the movement here. And we are teaching our children to occupy the space that is ours, to create our own government inspired by the vision of Tupac Katari"--the warrior chief who led a siege of La Paz in the eighteenth century.'Note that the name Quispe is the forename of Quispe Ramirez and the surname of Felipe Quispe. Note also that both have one Spanish name.
There are Aymara glossaries on the web. You may be able to get to them via Seán's wikipedia site. Who knows? Maybe they'll have translations of the names mentioned above.
I think the information is out there, but not easy to find.
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thanks for your help.
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