I suggest that if anyone does find anything like a self-study
course, that you post whatever information you come up with to the
NAT-EDU list (nat-edu@gnosys.svle.ma.us), which you can do by just
responding to this message.
Thanks to the several people who wrote to me saying that you would
be interested in getting this information, which provided me the
needed incentive to write to Prof. Delgado. --Gary ]
Quechua is taught at the University of Wisconsin by Quechua linguist
Carmen Chuquin and Quechua translator Frank Solomon. There is another
linguist of the name of Donald Sola who either taught or coordinates
Quechua language programs at Cornell University. I would like to think
that Sola belongs to the Anthropology Department. You may also inquire
Billie Jean Isbell for this information. Billie Jean, an anthropologist
conducted fieldwork in Peru. She is tenured at Cornell. There is a
Quechua program at UCLA, taught every summer session, I think under
the Anthropology Department, the professor's name is Jaime?Daza.
I no longer teach this language, but I did while at the University of
Texas at Austin.
Since it is not a popular language program resources at one point
were available. Check Garland, Bills and Vallejo Spoken Bolivian Quechua.
Unfortunately, there are six linguistic branches of Quechua, the
Cusco-Bolivia variety is structurally and morphologically similar to
most of them, but there are sharp dialectical differences among themselves.
In general, one may say that there are around seven million speakers of
these six Quechua varieties throughout the Andean area. Aymara, also an
Andean language must be studied by itself, since the linguistic split
from Jaqe and Aru mother tongues occurred apprx two thousand years ago.
Tupananchiskama ari, waleq kakuycheq!
Guillermo Delgado-P.
UCSC-SAIIC
Humbly. I forgot to mentioned a book of Quechua Poetry in translation.
The person interested in Quechua please look for:
Hillman, Grady & Guillermo Delgado-P.
The Return of the Inca. Austin: Place of Herons, 1986