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January 15, 2016

Preserving Quichua in the rainforests of Ecuador

BYU linguistics professor Janis Nuckolls has spent 30 years learning, examining, documenting and preserving the evolving Quichua language. Most recently, in a study released in the International Journal of American Linguistics, Nuckolls looks at the use of Quichua ideophones — words that imitate sensory perceptions.

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