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	LINGUIST List 15.1401: Language Description: Mochica: Hovdhaugen
		The language was widely used in the area in the 17th and early 18th century, but records of the language at the end of the 19th century show a dying language only spoken by a few persons in some villages around Chiclayo.
		Mochica was the language of the Chim� culture and it may have been the language of the Moche culture.
		Mochica was the language of one of the main pre-Inca cultures of Per�, a culture that created the great town Chanchan and the impressive pyramids, temples and tombs from Trujillo in the south to T�cume in the north.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-1401.html (388 words)

	Mochica language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mochica language was spoken along the northwest coast of Peru and in some inland villages and was first documented in 1607.
		By the end of the 19th century the language was dying out and spoken only by a few people in the villages around Chiclayo.
		Mochica is typologically different from the other main languages on the west coast of South America (Quechua, Aymara, and Mapudungun) and contains rare features.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mochica_language (237 words)

	The Languages of the Andes - Cambridge University Press
		Andaquí and the languages of the Upper Magdalena valley
		A sketch of an Ecuadorian Quechua dialect (Salasaca)
		The languages of the Chaco region: Guaicuruan, Matacoan, Zamucoan and Lengua–Mascoy
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511206909&ss=toc (177 words)

	Moche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today it is understood that they were not politically the same people as the Chimú, and some believe this was not even an empire but rather a group of communities that shared a common iconography and technology.
		Not much is known about their clothing since it has all disintegrated; the Moche lived in the north of Peru, which gets flooded in El Niño years.
		Note: Mochica was the language spoken in the area when the Conquistadors arrived, but there is no indication that this was the language spoken by the Moche, so scientists still call them the Moche after the location of the primary archaeological site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moche (1269 words)

	Search Results for "Mochica"
		Previously called Early Chimu (see Chimu), the Mochica were warriors with a highly developed social and political...
		...The Mochica, an earlier civilization, was previously known as early Chimu or proto-Chimu.
		After the decline of the Mochica (c.800), there was a long transition period...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Mochica (143 words)

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		Visit to the Local Market and the "Mercado de Brujos", continuing with the Brunning Museum in Lambayeque City, where the most beautiful pottery masterpieces of the regional cultures are shown in an educational way.
		With a history of about 400 years as descendants of the Spanish conqueror’s horses, these beautiful animals are shown in a private farm located near to Paijan village with explanations about the breeding, the formal presentation of the horses including the traditional dancing of the "marinera norteña".
		Early in the morning visit to the Local Market and the "Mercado de Brujos", continuing with the Brunning Museum in Lambayeque City, where the most beautiful pottery masterpieces of the regional cultures are shown in an educational way.
	www.ecoandesadventures.com /peru/chiclayotours.htm (508 words)

	Granada - Classes to choose from (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Intensive Language and Culture Option is open to students of all levels, including beginners, who wish to concentrate on improving their reading, writing, listening and speaking abilities in Spanish.
		Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is a course designed to introduce students to the principles and practices of English language teaching, as well as provide them with first-hand teaching and observation in the EFL classroom.
		The purpose of this course is to broaden the student's existing knowledge of the Spanish language with uniform progress in the three areas of morphology, syntax and diction/semantics.
	www.central.edu /abroad/granada/classes.html (3632 words)

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		The Sican culture, also known as the Lambayeque culture, was around after the fall of the Mochica in the VIII century.
		Originally called Cican, Sicani or Cani, in Muchik language means House or Temple of the Moon, and because of this discovery archaeologists agreed to call this historic culture Sican.
		This culture started to surge after the Mochica had declined in the VIII century, but was unfortunately conquered by the Chimu.
	www.amersol.edu.pe /ms/8th/cww/journal/sican.html (167 words)

	Re: [aymara] Aymara and Western Culture
		So on this basis, for instance, English is about the most terrible language there is! It's very irregular, borrows from very diverse traditions, etc. French also is difficult for a machine to translate because not only is the spelling obsolete, but they stick in little words when they don't like certain conjunctions of sounds, etc.
		As to how a language "is" or "should be" spoken, Sanskrit I understand is not still today spoken as it is written, but it is used in dissertations, etc., for clarity.
		So, yes, I think it is very important to look at the aboriginal American languages in this light, precisely because of what you said: the rigors of the efforts of the colonizers to destroy these cultures and replace them with their own.
	www.mail-archive.com /aymaralist@aymara.org/msg00037.html (1322 words)

	Courses at U of Seville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Study of the Spanish language from the point of view of its lexicological units or elements.
		The course aims to enhance student perception of what is unique in each language as well as what the two languages have in common.
		This course is an introduction to flamenco and its language as the most genuine representative of the Andalusian people and its speech patterns.
	faculty.cua.edu /alvarezl/StudyAbroad/html/courses_at_u_of_seville.html (1735 words)

	Book notices 81 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff.
		Language and grammar: Studies in mathematical linguistics and natural language.
		The unfolding of language: An evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention.
	www.cs.uky.edu /~gstump/lgrev/Book_notices_81-2_through_82-1_final.html (1395 words)

	Moche Terminology
		On the matter of what language they did, in fact speak, it is, as noted commonly thought that they spoke the Mochica (or Mochik or Muchic, etc...) tongue.
		There is a a grammar of the language by Carrerra (originally published in 1644 and reprinted in 1939), but before he could publish his more complete vocabulary of the language, he died, and the vocabulary went with him.
		The term has no correlation in the English language, but might best be thought of as "holiness," not like "righteousness" or "nearness to the divine," but more like "possessing a portion of divinity." This is not the best, most refined definition possible, but it does serve to clarify some issues of Andean belief systems.
	members.tripod.com /~Moche/Moche_Term.html (1823 words)

	Peru Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Since 'the pottery of the Mochicas is their language', their ceramics are the best known of all the Peruvian pre-Inca cultures; first because they have been so well preserved, and second, because of their realism.
		The flora of the desert and the cultivated plants are all depicted in their pottery; the fauna from the sea and fauna of the land are so faithfully molded that the species of each is identifiable.
		The Mochicas' attitude towards animals is much like that of early Egyptians, for whom animals and birds played an active and very vital role in the day to day business of their lives.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/teachers/peruexcerpts/mochicaexcerpt.html (114 words)

	lachocolatiere.com: List of Pre-Columbian Cultures
		The Mochica language was spoken along the northwest coast of Peru and in some inland villages and was first documented in 1607.
		Mochica is typologically different from the other main languages on the west coast of South America (Quechua, Aymara, and Mapudungun) and contains rare features.
		Mochica appears to be an isolated language with no clear links to any other American Indian language.
	www.lachocolatiere.com /pre-columbian-cultures.htm (414 words)

	Andean Linguistics and Bilingual Education
		The objective of the academic extension program "Andean Linguistics and Bilingual Education," is to introduce participants to general themes in Andean linguistics and intercultural bilingual education.
		Andean linguistics area: Various themes of the Andean languages are presented: linguistic formation in the Andean space, from the pre-Hispanic period until the present; relations between language, culture and society; grammatical structures of Quechua and Aymara; the oral tradition; dialectical diversity and linguistic contact.
		The problem of teaching of/in the mother language and second language will be discussed; linguistic and cultural policy in relation to education and the global and regional society will be discussed.
	www.cbc.org.pe /coland/laeb.htm (998 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Language rights are so politically sensitive that language policies tend to be left to market forces.
		This description of Hoava, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on parts of New Georgia in the western Solomon Islands, is the first published reference grammar of a language from this area.
		Sixteen chapters consider the various antecedents of each country’s native signed language, taking into account the historical background for their development and also the effects of foreign influences and changes in philosophies by the larger, dominant hearing societies.
	www.ogmios.org /2111.htm (1022 words)

	OsProMil. Participante. Hovdhaugen: English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Carrera's grammar is the only source we have of the Mochica language of costal Peru written by a native speaker while this important cultural language of South America still was a living language.
		To write a grammatical sketch of the language making it more accessible to typologists and specialists of South American languages and to publish a complete dictionary of all Mochica words in Carrera's grammar.
		The first and only extensive translation of Christian texts into Mochica is also paradoxically our first and most extensive source of pre-Christian Mochica culture and religion.
	www.hf.uio.no /ilos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/ospromil/participantes/hovdhaugen/2index.html (168 words)

	CHICLAYO TOURIST INFORMATION - TRAVEL TO CHICLAYO, PERU
		This monumental group is comprised of two adobe pyramids and a platform, where the archaeological finding of the two famous pre-Hispanic tombs was made in 1987; that of the Lord of Sipán and that of his ancestor, called the Old Lord of Sipán.
		The Sicán Culture emerged in the Region of Lambayeque around 750 A.C. Its background was the local Mochica Culture and the Cultures of Cajamarca and Wari and the site of Pachacamac (on the central coast of Peru).
		This culture is also known as Lambayeque and in the extinct Muchik language it meant "the House or Temple of the Moon".
	www.inkawasitravel.com /english/geography-information-peru/lambayeque-peru-information/chiclayo/chiclayo-peru-atracctions.htm (558 words)

	Fernando Aedo Home Page
		Comparative linguistics allows for serveral words in unrelated languages to have similar sounds and meaning by sheer coincidence, so exhibiting a multiple of this amount attests to the quantity and quality of the findings.
		Languages in this research are Akkadian, Assyrian, Arabic, Coptic, Egyptian, and Hebrew.
		Quechua or Runa Simi is a language spoken by 10 million people found in the Andean countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Equador, and Peru.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/8750 (265 words)

	Peruvian - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Muchic (Mochica), the language that their descendants spoke at the time of the Spanish conquest, is no longer spoken.
		Moche vessels are assigned to one of five periods, known as Moche I-V, on the basis of formal analysis.
		A frog is painted on each of the man's cheeks, and quadrupeds were once painted over his eyebrows;3 these decorations may reflect either the known Moche practice of tattooing or the more common face painting.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/peruvian.html (995 words)

	Quechua Classes in Cusco, Peru
		At present, these languages deserve a new social space and have presence in the cities, schools and other centers of study, as well as in the means of communication and in the writing level in general terms.
		Through language teaching, the University Andean College seeks to develop the communicative aptitudes of the students in order to break the linguistic barriers and motivate the equitable exchange among individuals and human groups.
		Andean linguistics area: Various themes of the Andean languages are presented: linguistic formation in the Andean space, from the pre- Hispanic period until the present; relations between language, culture and society; grammatical structures of Quechua and Aymara; the oral tradition; dialectical diversity and linguistic contact.
	www.andes.org /cuzco.html (3964 words)

	Historical Places - Welcome to the Official Site for the Promotion of Peru - PromPeru
		The ancient Chimú kingdom (700-1400 AD) founded their capital by the banks of the Moche River in the department of La Libertad and called it Jang-Jang, which in the ancient Mochica language means "sun-sun".
		Chan Chan, which spans an area of 20 square km, is the largest mud-brick citadel dating back to the pre-Hispanic era.
		Prominent is a great adobe pyramid, 30 m high in the walls of which the Mochicas shaped a rich iconography, the most well known of which is the "Beheader", one of the most important polychromatic friezes.
	www.peru.info /e_ftohistoriaeng.asp?pdr=555&jrq=4.1.2&ic=2&ids=1099 (362 words)

	Radio Naylamp, Lambayeque, Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Radio Naylamp, a shortwave broadcaster named after the Mochica mythology, was first discovered in late of August of 1987, on the variable frequency of 4859.7 kHz in the 60 meter band.
		It was in late November of 1991 that another station identified itself with the same Mochica's god name was logged on the frequency range between 4300.0kHz and 4299.8kHz.
		Identifying with a slogan "Radio Naylamp, Estacion Pucara, para toda la Region Nor Oriental del Maranon", the station announced transmitting on 1150 kHz medium wave from the District of Pucara, Province of Jaen, in the Department of Cajamarca.
	www.swl.net /patepluma/south/peru/naylamp.htm (2394 words)

	Information Peru Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They practiced the fishing from "Caballitos de Totora (technique that subsists at the present time in Huanchaco and Pimentel); they made use of a writing system, that was transferred by messengers.
		The language of this nation was adopted by the nation Chimú and it has left some words in the north coast until the present time and some names and people's last names.
		To appreciate the Mochica art in their invaluable ceramic pieces, textiles, you can go to the Archaeological museums of Peru, Larco Herrera, de la Nacion in
	www.go2peru.com /webapp/ilatintravel/articulo.jsp?cod=1998817 (521 words)

	Nahua Newsletter 19
		Izumi Shimada's Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture is a landmark volume on Moche culture that represents the culmination of 20 years of research by the author.
		The language of the day is Españahuatl, the greatest hit song is "Huitzilopochtli, Eat My Heart," and it is the rage in Mexico to have blond-haired, gringa maids.
		The difference between primitive social facts (the language level) and derivative generalizations (the metalanguage) forces the anthropologist to pinpoint the junctures between inductive and deductive elements that generate explanations.
	www.ipfw.edu /soca/Nahua19.html (6657 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Trujillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An account of the ancient religion has been preserved by Antonio de la Calancha, Augustinian prior of Trujillo in 1619; the chief deity was the moon (Si), her temple (Si-an) situated near the Río Muchi having had an area of about 42,000 square yards.
		A grammar of the native language — Mochica — now dead, was compiled by Padre Fernando de la Carrera (Lima, 1644).
		Diocesan statistics: 102 parishes; 350 churches and chapels; 160 priests; 2 boys' colleges; 3 girls' high schools; there are communities of Franciscans (2), Conceptionists, Carmelites, Poor Clares, Dominican Tertiaries, and Lazarists, the latter having charge of the seminary.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15070b.htm (452 words)

	[aymara] Aymara and Western Culture
		I'm a little surprised that when the language is so tremendously sophisticate, I don't see anything about a literature or a writing system.
		During the Spanish Conquer and colony, Quechua, Aymara, Mochica, Puquina (in a first stage) were taken as a way to spread the Catholic religion.
		They were "lenguas generales", that is, languages that had a wide range of influence.
	www.mail-archive.com /aymaralist@aymara.org/msg00034.html (561 words)

	South America
		The Mochica, Chimu, and Nazca in Peru, the Chibcha and Aymara of the Andes, and the Araucanos
		Quechua, spoken by the Inca, is the most widely spoken language in South America.
		The Guaraní in Brazil are few and scattered, but in Paraguay their language is widely spoken and, like Quechua in Bolivia, is the official language of the country.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /southam (405 words)

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