Fwd: INFO: Aymara-English Textbook On-line

[John F. Schwaller]

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>From: Josh Beck <jpbeck at midway.uchicago.edu>
>Date: November 11, 2003
>
>The Center for Latin American Studies
>at the University of Chicago
>
>is pleased to present the electronic publication of
>
>Aymar Arux Akhamawa
>Aymara Language is Like This
>
>By Miguel Huanca
>
>http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/aymara/index.html
>
>Aymara is an indigenous language of the Andean region of Bolivia, Peru,
>Chile and Argentina. Approximately four million people in the region
>consider Aymara to be their native language, including over one-third of
>the population of Bolivia, making it one of the most widely-spoken
>indigenous languages in South America. For over a decade, the University of
>Chicago has been the only institution to offer regular Aymara instruction,
>supported with funding from US Department of Education Title VI National
>Resource Center grants. Aymar Arux Akhamawa is the only English-Aymara
>textbook available. This valuable resource is now made available at no cost
>for self-guided language learning via the world wide web, complete with
>digitally-recorded native-spoken dialogues, vocabulary supplements,
>original literature, and traditional song. The on-line publication of this
>text can be found on the Center's website at
>http://clas.uchicago.edu/thematic/aymara. This is the second edition of the
>text developed by Miguel Huanca, who has taught 26 students in Aymara at
>the University of Chicago since 1994 through the biannual Aymara Summer
>Intensive Institute (http://clas.uchicago.edu/thematic/aymara/).  The
>Summer Institute will next be offered in 2005. For more information about
>Aymara instruction at the University of Chicago Center for Latin American
>Studies, contact clas at uchicago.edu or (773) 702-8420.
>
>Josh Beck
>Administrator, Academic Programs & Outreach
>Center for Latin American Studies
>University of Chicago
>5848 South University Ave., Kelly Hall 310
>Chicago, IL 60637
>phone (773) 702-8420
>fax (773) 702-1755
>web http://clas.uchicago.edu