Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia

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2011

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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University

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Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia is the world’s first comprehensive language instruction method for the Inga language, the variety of the Quechua family of languages that is spoken in the southwestern corner of Colombia and neighboring regions of Ecuador. It contains 21 chapters drawing on real-world experiences in the Inga community of Santiago in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, presenting engaging dialogues as well as targeted exercises to guide the learner towards a basic speaking and reading competence in the language. These lessons are supplemented by an audio companion for the first set of chapters, and by five appendices: a glossary, a profile of Inga suffixes, notes locating Inga among the other varieties of Quechua, a chart of the Inga verb structure, and a list of key words and phrases. This textbook is the product of much collaborative effort. Of primary importance is the contribution of Francisco Tandioy Jansasoy, Inga intellectual and activist, who brings the Inga community to life in its pages. As well, it has benefited from the contributions several generations of Indiana University’s Inga students, who have added and refined its content over the years. Finally, we acknowledge the elders, ex-governors, Inga native doctors, all members of the Inga community, the Committee for Bilingual Education of Musu Runakuna, and the Hermanas Lauras of San Andrés, for their support and contributions to the project. ***It should be noted that this text utilizes practices for writing the Inga language that were prevalent at the time of its publication, and that work continues in the Inga community to refine and perfect the realization of spoken Inga on the written page.

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Inga language of Colombia, Northernmost Quechua variety, Language-learning text and audio companion

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