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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5813 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 10 24 June 2008 at 6:15am | IP Logged |
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Argentina is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in South America.
Quechua and Guaraní are spoken indigenously, and a large number of immigrant languages are still in daily use: Spanish, Aymara, Gallician, Brazilian Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese and Gallician are hard to draw a line between -- the traditional Gallician area of S America covered parts of northern Argentina, southern Brazil and IIRC Paraguay, so there's a dialect continuum comparable to that on the western coast of Iberia, but essentially the other way up!) , Italian, Welsh, English, French, Arabic, Yiddish (and, as elsewhere, Hebrew is gaining popularity within Jewish communities) and Japanese. I'm sure to have missed something. Scottish Gaelic died out in the latter half of last century, and although Basque names are relatively common, I don't think the language survives there today (ETB's overseas broadcasts for the Basque diaspora are overwhelmingly Spanish-language). So, Argentina is the natural home for the aspiring polyglot, but nothing in Che's history suggests that he was that way inclined. He seemingly did learn Quechua forhis campaigns in Bolivia, but he wasn't operating in a former Inca area -- instead he was in Tupí-Gauraní territory. And this from a man who called for indigenous revolution. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6074 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 10 of 10 24 June 2008 at 8:50am | IP Logged |
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Either his diaries or Pombo's (one of the survivors of the group, later a Cuban army general) mention Quechua lessons.
His unit contained some Bolivians (and even a Peruvian or two) although the hard core were Cubans, and the Bolivians certainly knew indigenous languages. Of the five including Pombo who escaped, eventually making it over the border into northern Chile, three were Cuban and two Bolivian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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