Forthcoming: The Puquina Corpus

The Puquina Corpus presents the complete surviving textual record of Puquina, a linguistic isolate that was spoken in the Central Andes until the 19th century. The volume comprises 37 texts, principally from Luis Jerónimo de Oré’s Rituale seu Manuale Peruanum (1607), together with a Puquina inscription from the baptistery of Andahuaylillas, Peru.

The Puquina textual record is unusual in that all of the texts are preserved alongside parallel versions in Spanish, Quechua, or Aymara (and in most cases, all three). In this volume, these versions are presented together in an aligned format. The Puquina, Quechua, and Aymara texts are normalized, translated, and interlinearized, allowing readers to compare the four linguistic versions in detail.

The Puquina Corpus provides a resource for the study of Puquina and the historical varieties of Quechua and Aymara that are documented in the corpus. The material is more broadly relevant to scholars of multilingualism and language contact, translation, Andean colonial history, and Christian evangelization in South America. The volume is also intended for readers in the formerly Puquina-speaking Andes who are interested in the region's linguistic and cultural heritage.