Three maps by Father Samuel Fritz of the Peruvian Amazon basin (17th century) seen through the eyes of a linguist

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v11i1.22662

Keywords:

Cartography, documentation, tracing, chronic, amazonian languages

Abstract

This is a study about the languages and peoples of the Amazon in the late seventeenth century, departing from three maps elaborated by the missionary Samuel Fritz. The aim of the article is to provide a linguistic perspective on the Amazonian peoples and languages at that time period, in order to provide a delineation of the spaces that these languages once occupied, as well as of the ones that the surviving languages occupy today. The three maps made by Father Fritz allow us to identify languages and peoples, linked to certain geographical areas in the Amazon at that time period, and they also reveal numerous cases of extinction of peoples and their respective linguistic creations.

Author Biography

  • Gustavo Solís Fonseca, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

    Correo: gustavosolisf@unmsm.edu.pe

    Lingüista, se graduó de bachiller en la UNMSM (1973) y obtuvo su doctorado en 1976. En 1979 fue becado por la Fundación Ford para estudiar en la Universidad del Estado de Nueva York en Buffalo, donde obtuvo su maestría. ha sido director del CILA por varios periodos consecutivos. Su trabajo se orienta fundamentalmente a la investigación de las lenguas amerindias, así como a su aplicación en la educación de dichos pueblos. Entre sus publicaciones podemos mencionar: La gente pasa, los nombres quedan: introducción en la toponimia (1997), Introducción a la Fonología (2000), Introducción a la Morfología (2000) Lenguas en la Amazonía peruana (2003) y Cuestiones de Lingüística Amerindia (2003).

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Published

2011-09-30

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2011)

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Articles originals

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Copyright (c) 2011 Gustavo Solís Fonseca

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Solís Fonseca, G. (2011). Three maps by Father Samuel Fritz of the Peruvian Amazon basin (17th century) seen through the eyes of a linguist. Lengua Y Sociedad, 11(1), 132-144. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v11i1.22662