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Willem Adelaar
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He is Professor of indigenous American Linguistics and Cultures at Leiden University. He has written broadly about the Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche languages. His main works are his 2004 The languages of the Andes, an overview of the indigenous languages of the Andean region, which is considered a "classic" in the field
His Dutch language publications about the history and religion of the Inca and translations of Quechua chronicles have met with a broad public.
A specialist on minority languages and language endangerment, he is also editor of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s "Interactive Atlas of the World"s Languages in Danger". In 1994 he was given a newly created Professorial chair in "Languages and Cultures of Native America" at the University of Leiden.
He is noted for his belief that the linguistic diversity of the Americas suggests a deeper history of population than the standard account of the Settlement of the Americas. He also holds an honorary doctorate at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos of Lima, Peru.
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