Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume II
- Figures Volume II
- Tables Volume II
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Multilingualism
- Part Two Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification
- Part Three Lingua Francas
- Part Four Language Vitality
- 17 Language Endangerment, Loss, and Reclamation Today
- 18 Contact and Shift: Colonization and Urbanization in the Arctic
- 19 The Indian Diaspora: Language Maintenance and Loss
- 20 Quechua Expansion during the Inca and Colonial Periods
- 21 Indigenous and Immigrant Languages in the US: Language Contact, Change, and Survival
- Part Five Contact and Language Structures
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
20 - Quechua Expansion during the Inca and Colonial Periods
from Part Four - Language Vitality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume II
- Figures Volume II
- Tables Volume II
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Multilingualism
- Part Two Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification
- Part Three Lingua Francas
- Part Four Language Vitality
- 17 Language Endangerment, Loss, and Reclamation Today
- 18 Contact and Shift: Colonization and Urbanization in the Arctic
- 19 The Indian Diaspora: Language Maintenance and Loss
- 20 Quechua Expansion during the Inca and Colonial Periods
- 21 Indigenous and Immigrant Languages in the US: Language Contact, Change, and Survival
- Part Five Contact and Language Structures
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Andean linguistics has underestimated the role of states in the spreading of languages and dialectal fusion processes. This chapter deals with the spread of Quechua in the Inca and colonial eras. It first reconstructs the communicative functions performed by different varieties of this language in the Inca empire and brings to light the factors that determined the formation of koine varieties and their rapid diffusion. Mass migrations led by the Inca state have been the main factor in these processes of koineization. This chapter then shows how the colonial regime drastically intensified the centrifugal dynamics that have been exerted since the Inca era on the Andean communities, making the Spanish economic sphere (cities, mines, and haciendas) the focus of a new expansion and vernacularization of Quechua. Finally, it compares the historical-linguistic evolution of three Andean regions in colonial times (Ecuador, Central Peru and the Ayacucho region of Peru).
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language ContactVolume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure, pp. 526 - 554Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022