Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino
Encyclopedia
Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino (* February 10, 1940 in Huancayo
, Peru
) is a Peru
vian linguist
who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechua language. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara
, Mochica
and Chipaya
languages.
. After graduating, he obtained his Master’s degree at Cornell University
and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. He started his studies by researching the Quechuan
variety spoken in his homeland: the Mantaro Valley region. Engaged by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, he wrote the first grammar and dictionary of Wanka Quechua, both published in 1976. He has fought strongly for preservation and development of Quechua in all of its varieties. In 1994 he published a dictionary of Southern Quechua
, proposing a unified orthographic standard for all Quechua of southern Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. This standard has been accepted by many institutions in Peru and is used officially for Quechua in Bolivia, as well as on the Wikipedia Quechua pages.
Cerrón-Palomino is currently a Professor in linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.
Huancayo
Huancayo with a rock') is the capital of the Junín Region, in the central highlands of Peru. It is located in Junín Province, of which it is also capital. Situated near the Mantaro Valley at an altitude of 3,271 meters, it has a population of 377,000 and is the fifth most populous city of the...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
) is a Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechua language. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara
Aymara language
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 three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...
, Mochica
Mochica language
Mochica is a Chimuan language formerly spoken along the northwest coast of Peru and in an inland village. First documented in 1607, the language was widely spoken in the area during the 17th and early 18th century...
and Chipaya
Chipaya language
Chipaya is a native South American language of the Uru–Chipaya language family. The only other language in the grouping, Uru, is considered by some to be a divergent dialect of Chipaya. Ethnologue lists the language vitality as "vigorous," with 1200 speakers out of an ethnic population of around...
languages.
Biography
He pursued his first degree at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in LimaLima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
. After graduating, he obtained his Master’s degree at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. He started his studies by researching the Quechuan
Quechua languages
Quechua is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably...
variety spoken in his homeland: the Mantaro Valley region. Engaged by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, he wrote the first grammar and dictionary of Wanka Quechua, both published in 1976. He has fought strongly for preservation and development of Quechua in all of its varieties. In 1994 he published a dictionary of Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua , or only Quechua, is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 5 million speakers...
, proposing a unified orthographic standard for all Quechua of southern Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. This standard has been accepted by many institutions in Peru and is used officially for Quechua in Bolivia, as well as on the Wikipedia Quechua pages.
Cerrón-Palomino is currently a Professor in linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.
Works (selection)
- 1976 Diccionario quechua Junín-Huanca. Ministerio de educación del Perú
- 1976 Gramática quechua Junín-Huanca. Ministerio de educación del Perú
- 1987 Unidad y diferenciación lingüística en el mundo andino. Lexis, 11: 1, pp. 71–010-t. También en López, Luis Enrique (Comp.) Pesquisas en lingüística andina. Lima: Gráfica Bellido, pp. 121–152.
- 1987 Lingüística Quechua. Cuzco, Perú: Bartolomé de Las Casas
- 1989 Quechua y mochica: lenguas en contacto. Lexis, 13: 1, pp. 47–68.
- 1989 Lengua y sociedad en el Valle del Mantaro. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
- 1990 Reconsideración del llamado quechua costeño. Revista Andina, 16: 2, pp. 335–409.
- 1991 El Inca Garcilaso o la lealtad idiomática. Lexis, 1.5: 2, pp. 133–178.
- 1992 Diversidad y unificación léxica en el mundo andino. En Godenzzi, Juan Carlos (Comp.) El quechua en debate: ideología normal y enseñanza. Cuzco: C.E.R.A. "Bartolomé de Las Casas", pp. 205–235.
- 1993 Los fragmentos de Gramática del Inca Garcilaso. Lexis, 17: 2, pp. 219–257.
- 1994 Quechua sureño, diccionario unificado quechua-castellano, castellano-quechua. Lima, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú.
- 1994 Quechumara. Estructuras paralelas del quechua y del aymara. Lima: CIPA, 42
- 1995 La lengua de Naimlap (reconstrucción y obsolescencia del mochica). Lima: Fondo editorial de la PUC.
- 1996 "El Nebrija indiano". Prólogo a la edición de la Grammatica de Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, Cuzco: C.E.R.A. Bartolomé de las Casas.
- 1998 El cantar de Inca Yupanqui y la lengua secreta de los incas. Revista Andina, 32, pp. 417–452.
- 1999 Tras las huellas del aimara cuzqueño. Revista Andina, 33, pp. 137–161.
- 2000 Lingüística aimara Cuzco: C.E.R.A. Bartolomé de Las Casas.
- 2003. Castellano Andino. Aspectos sociolingüísticos, pedagógicos y gramaticales. Lima: PUCP.
- 2006 El chipaya o la lengua de los hombres del agua. Lima: PUCP.
- 2008 Voces del Ande. Ensayos sobre Onomástica Andina. Lima: PUCP.