Recordings of the Extinct Mochica Language
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v36i1.77-108Keywords:
linguistic anthropology, extinct language, Mochica, phonetics, recordings, Quesquén, Eten, Peru, 20th centuryAbstract
For the first time in history, this article presents recordings of the extinct Mochica language as uttered by its last speaker, Simón Quesquén. It places these recordings in the context of previously unpublished or lost recordings of the same language. It also relates the circumstances in which Quesquén acquired his knowledge of Mochica pronunciation and provides further detail about the vocabulary of the Quesquén family published earlier. The conditions under which the recordings were made are explained prior to a presentation of their structure and content. Finally, it includes a linguistic analysis of a sample of the recorded words in a comparative approach using other related sources to arrive at preliminary conclusions about the contribution this new material makes to the discussion of the pronunciation of the Mochica language.Downloads
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2019-06-30
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