Quechumaran, or Kechumaran, is a language family proposal uniting the Quechuan and Aymaran languages, whose southern Quechuan varieties in particular share a large amount of vocabulary with Aymara. Linguist Norman McQuown first proposed the hypothesis in 1955; Terrence Kaufman finds it reasonably convincing, Quechua specialist Willem Adelaar attributes the similarities to long-term contact and borrowing instead, and Lyle Campbell considers the proposal plausible but not conclusively proven.
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1. Quechumaran languages, Wikipedia
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Quechuan languages, especially those of the south, share a large amount of vocabulary with Aymara.
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