Wallatani (Bolivia)

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Wallatani
Highest point
Elevation 5,336 m (17,507 ft) [1]
Coordinates 17°00′39″S67°21′41″W / 17.01083°S 67.36139°W / -17.01083; -67.36139 Coordinates: 17°00′39″S67°21′41″W / 17.01083°S 67.36139°W / -17.01083; -67.36139
Geography
Location Bolivia
La Paz Department
Parent range Andes, Kimsa Cruz

Wallatani (Aymara wallata snow ball, snow lump / Andean goose, [2] [3] -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a snow ball", "the one with a snow lump" or "the one with the Andean goose", Hispanicized spelling Huallatani) is a 5,336-metre-high (17,507 ft) mountain in the west of the Kimsa Cruz mountain range in the Bolivian Andes. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Loayza Province, Malla Municipality. Wallatani lies west of Wallatani Lake and southeast of the mountain Ch'uxña Quta. [4]

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.

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.

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. IGM map 1:50,000 6142-IV 'Yaco'
  2. 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)
  3. Bolivia - Highlands Naturetrek Tour Report 21-30 November 2005
  4. "Malla". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved August 25, 2014. (labelled Huayllani)