Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift
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quechuan-and-aymaran-spelling-shift-161-15099157
title:
Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift
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In recent years, Peru has revised the official spelling for place-names originating from Aymara and the Quechuan languages. A standardized alphabet for done Quechua was adopted by the Peruvian government in 1975; a revision in 1985 moved to a three-vowel orthography. The major changes are to replace the digraph ⟨hu⟩ with the single letter ⟨w⟩, and to replace the consonants c/q[u] with either ⟨k⟩ or ⟨q⟩, as appropriate in the word in question. K and q represent different sounds in most Andean lan
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Orthography reform for indigenous place names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_and_Aymaran_spelling_shift
date created:
2004-09-07T04:37:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T10:39:19Z
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