Wachwani

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Wachwani
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Wachwani
Peru
Highest point
Elevation 4,600 m (15,100 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 14°54′56″S73°40′50″W / 14.91556°S 73.68056°W / -14.91556; -73.68056 Coordinates: 14°54′56″S73°40′50″W / 14.91556°S 73.68056°W / -14.91556; -73.68056  
Geography
Location Peru, Ayacucho Region
Parent range Andes

Wachwani (Quechua wachwa Andean goose, Aymara -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, [2] [3] "the one with the Andean goose", hispanicized spelling Huachhuani) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 4,600 m (15,092 ft) high. It is situated in the Ayacucho Region, Parinacochas Province, Coracora District. [1]

Andean goose species of bird

The Andean goose is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is also known as the wallata. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.

Aymara language native language in South America

Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. Aymara, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Bolivia and parts of Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case ending, which indicate the grammatical cased of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

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References

  1. 1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Parinacochas Province (Ayacucho Region)
  2. ↑ Abdón Yaranga Valderrama: Diccionario Quechua-Español / Runa Simi-Español. Lima / Paris 2003: wachwa: Chloephaga melanoptera, syn. wallata
  3. ↑ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)


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