Los cañaris y su lengua

Abstract

The Cañaris and their language combine the rigor of the researcher with the didactic and well-worked prose of the teacher and the writer. This way, one hundred years after the publication of Cordero's inaugural work, El Quechua and Cañari (1923), and two hundred years after the feat of Independence, Encalada resumes the study of this language, advances it and presents it in a an orderly and enjoyable way in a text aimed both at the specialized reader as the common user of many of the roots and terms studied. This work also constitutes an invitation to new generations, to be encouraged to investigate the Cañari culture, from the perspective linguistics (in the fields of phytonymy and zoonymy there is much to do), but also from other perspectives such as anthropology, culinary or artistic. All this with the aim of achieving with each contributes a safer and more accurate knowledge of the Cañari culture and, in the as we participate in it, in ourselves.