The vicissitudes of directional affixes in Tarma (Northern Junín) Quechua

Abstract

"Quechua(n) is the name of a family of closely related languages spoken in the Andean nations Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and Chile (here enumerated in order of importance as regards the number of speakers). It can be assumed that all the modern Quechuan languages descend from a common ancestor language, which was spoken somewhere in central Peru during the first millennium A.D. This assumption is motivated by the fact that the greatest and deepest internal variety is found in that area, whereas the similarity between the different languages belonging to the Quechua group as a whole does not suggest a greater time depth"