cool!!! Maybe Emilie's mom was South American. Emilie why not join the
Peruvian or Bolivian Rootsweb email groups or just post a message on
their message boards and ask what Tarayata means. You never know.



here's the URL for the Peruvian Message board:



http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.southam.peru.general



joseph



latina1955@... wrote:

I just looked up "aymara" region, it appears to be a language
spoken by indigenous people in South America...hmmmm....I wonder, if
there were any "transplants" from South America to Mexico?

Aymara is the language of the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara">Aymara people of the
title="Andes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes">Andes. It
is one of only a handful of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_languages">Native
American languages with over a million speakers, and it is one of
the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language">official
languages of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia">Bolivia and
title="Peru" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru">Peru. It is
also spoken in
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile and
title="Argentina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina">Argentina.

Many linguists believe that Aymara is related to its more
widely-spoken neighbour,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechua">Quechua. This claim,
however, is disputed — although there are indeed similarities, critics
say that these may simply be the result of prolonged interaction
between the two languages or an
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areal_feature_%28linguistics%29">areal
feature, not a shared origin.

The Aymara language is an
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflected_language">inflected
language, and has a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_Object_Verb">subject-object-verb
word order