THE NATURE OF THIS WORK This corpus contains a variety of information about Salasaka Kichwa, the Salasakas, their love and aspirations for their culture, history, and language.  The contents reveal details about various individuals’ lives, thus, although all native participants have granted us permission to post their stories, recordings, etc., it is of utmost importance to use discretion when … [Read more...]

Salasaka Kichwa is an SOV language, meaning that the word order of any sentence will be 'subject, object, verb'.  It is an agglutinative language, which means that, rather than using many independent words to convey meaning and build sentences, suffixes are added to a root that change the meaning or part of speech of a root (derivational), or express a grammatical function (inflectional). Some … [Read more...]