http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Aymara Posts tagged with 'Aymara' at MetaFilter. Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:04:02 -0800 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:04:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52267/Backs%2Dto%2Dthe%2Dfuture <a href="http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/NSaymaraproofs.pdf" title="With the Future Behind Them : Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time. (PDF)">New analysis</a> of the <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ayr">language</a> and gesture of South America's indigenous <a href="http://www.aymara.org/index.php">Aymara people</a> indicates they have a concept of <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/" title="The Experience of Time - Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy">time</a> opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- <a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521182/#imagetop">the past is ahead of them and the future behind</a>. The morphologically-rich <a href="http://www.aymara.org/arusa/qillqa_eng.php" title="Aymara alphabet">language</a>, of which you can hear samples <a href="http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Sounds/Home/HomeAymaraAbout.htm">here</a>, may also <a href="http://www.multivaluelogic.com/">prove useful</a> to computer scientists due to its unique ternary <a href="http://www.aymara.org/ternary/ternary.pdf" title="Brief Intro to Ternary Logic (PDF link)">logic system. </a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52267 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:04:02 -0800 Aymara Bolivia language languages linguistics SouthAmerica time youarenothere