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late 18th century the Spanish crown had expelled the
Jesuits from Peru and shortly thereafter the crown re-
stored the Spanish-only policy. Nevertheless, the wealth
of material on New World languages which the Jesuits

had gathered soon began to be published in Europe, mostly
in the form of comparative vocabulary lists. From that
time on the amount of published Aymara material gradually

increased.

2-3 Prelinguistic Studies--19th and 20th Centuries

Prelinguistic studies are those written without
benefit of the theories or techniques of modern linguis-
tic scholarship or dealing primarily with other than
linguistic aspects of Aymara culture.

The great European philologists Hervas, Vater,
Adelung, Pott, and Jéhan, writing in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries, included in their encyclopedic works
references to Aymara taken from earlier sources and super-
ficial comparisons of Aymara words with those of other
languages. In the second decade of the 19th century
political speeches and documents relating to the inde-
pendence movements in South America were published in
some native languages including Aymara.

In 1826 appeared the first Protestant materials

in Aymara, translations of the New Testament. From then