Collas and Camba

While the Bolivian crisis boils in London ended a conference of archaeologists and ethno linguists that in reviewing the Andean past this heated debate.

According to Professor Cerrón the Incas used the word 'Camba' as a synonym for 'idle' and 'collar' of puquina speaking people, an Arawakan language very different from the Quechua or Aymara, and is akin to that of the Peruvian countryside (which prefer to be told 'Asháninkas'), or mojos Camba of eastern Bolivia.

Aymara came from Chavín (3.000 years ago emerged in Ancash) and Quechua Huari (in Ayacucho ago from 1.500 to 1.100 years). The first Incas came from Bolivia and were abandoning their original puquina to adopt the language of Cuzco (Aymara) and then the Chinchaysuyo (Quechua).

The story takes strange turns. The term 'Camba' is no longer used as a pejorative to Amazonian tribes but with pride by an anti-Indian nationalism blancoide. The word is used to describe colla peoples whose languages ​​Quechua and Aymara have been imposed from the present-day Peru.