Word "flag" in Aymara

Last modified: 2016-03-24 by antónio martins
Keywords: wiphala | wiphalan |
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• Overview
• Word " wiphala "
• Word " ᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕ᚜ "
• Word " wiphalan "
• Word " ᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕᚁ᚜ "

• Genetic affiliation: > Aymaran

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Overview

"Unancha" means "flag" in Quechua and "electrical signal" in Aymara; the mentioned use of "unancha" in Aymara Wikipedia to mean "flag" seems to have been due to a mistake in the country infobox template that included for some reason (wild copy+paste the Quechua Wikipedia?) an alien word from Quechua, as of 2006.10.
António Martins, 27 Mai 2008 and Oct 2006

Word " wiphala "

Word:

wiphala

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

(uniques)

External links:

• English Wikitionary entry about wiphala

As far as I can tell, "wiphala" is indeed the regular Aymara word for "flag", while "unancha" is the regular Quechua word for "flag". (Evidence of this is the Aymara Wikipedia article about the flag of Bolivia and the Quechua Wikipedia article about flags.)

However, the (Aymara) word "wiphala" is used in Quechua to refer specifically to any of the seven colored Inca flags — both the the rainbow Twantinsuyu flag and any of the 7×7 chequered flags of its nominal “four quarters”. (Evidence of this is the Quechua Wikipedia article about these flags.)

António Martins, 27 Mai 2008

Word " ᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕ᚜ "

Word:

᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕ᚜

Transliteration:

wiphala

Script:

Ogham

Variant:

less common orthography form of "wiphala"

Remarks:

khipu script

Word " wiphalan "

Word:

wiphalan

Script:

Latin

Variant:

unknown ^{(help needed!)} variation of "wiphala"

Word " ᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕᚁ᚜ "

Word:

᚛ᚃᚗᚇᚘᚕᚎᚕᚁ᚜

Transliteration:

wiphalan

Script:

Ogham

Variant:

less common orthography form of "wiphalan"

Remarks:

khipu script

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