Gómez Rendón, J.

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Towards the fifteenth century southern Barbacoan languages came intocontact with several varieties of Quechua as a result of the former’s migrationfrom the north to present-day Ecuador and the expansion of Quechuaby the Incan occupation of the equatorial Andes and the evangelizationthat developed after the Spanish conquest. The outcomes of that contactincluded not only the shift of Barbacoan languages such as Pasto andCaranqui, caused by an expanding Quechua, but also different levels ofQuechua-Barbacoan bilingualism that resulted in the mutual influence of theintervening languages. The present contribution deals with the influence ofQuechua on the two southern Barbacoan languages surviving to date, i.e.Tsa’fiki and Cha’palaa. It begins by contextualizing Quechua-Barbacoancontact on the basis of historical evidence as a background for the analysis ofQuechua lexical borrowing. The linguistic analysis focuses on the morphophonologicaladaptation of Quechua loanwords and their classification,according to semantic fields, in order to identify the time of contact and thetype of situations in which such contact took place

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Southern barbacoan languages and Quechua

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Southern barbacoan languages and Quechua

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