Wayllani

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Wayllani
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Wayllani
Location in Bolivia
Highest point
Elevation 4,206 m (13,799 ft) [1]
Coordinates 17°58′42″S66°54′24″W / 17.97833°S 66.90667°W / -17.97833; -66.90667 Coordinates: 17°58′42″S66°54′24″W / 17.97833°S 66.90667°W / -17.97833; -66.90667
Geography
Location Bolivia,
Oruro Department
Parent range Andes

Wayllani (Aymara wayllaStipa obtusa, a kind of feather grass, [2] [3] -ni a suffix, "the one with the feather grass", also spelled Huayllani) is a 4,206-metre-high (13,799 ft) mountain in the Andes in Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Cercado Province, Paria Municipality (formerly Soracachi). Wayllani lies east of Jach'a Ch'ankha and southeast of Chunkara. [1] [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.

<i>Stipa</i> genus of plants

Stipa is a genus of around 300 large perennial hermaphroditic grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and spear grass. They are placed in the subfamily Pooideae and the tribe Stipeae.

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Thola Palca 6240-III
  2. Plan de desarollo municipal Municipio de Turco (Spanish)
  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)
  4. "Soracachi". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved March 22, 2016.