Frontmatter -- Contents -- SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES -- Introduction -- Part I. Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America -- 1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status -- 2. An Emerging Tukanoan Linguistic Regionality: Policy Pressures -- 3. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current Status -- 4. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Peru: History and Current Status -- 5. Panoan Linguistic, Folkloristic and Ethnographic Research: Retrospect and Prospect -- 6. Some Macro-Je Relationships -- 7. Nambiquara Languages: Linguistic and Geographical Distance between Speech Communities -- 8. A Survey of the Carib Language Family -- 9. Evidence for Tupi-Carib Relationships -- 10. The Present State of the Study of Brazilian Indian Languages -- Part II. Indigenous Languages of the Andes -- 11. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status -- 12. Southern Peruvian Quechua -- 13. The Quechua Language in Bolivia -- 14. A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language -- 15. Dialectical Variation in Aymara -- 16. Aymara and Quechua: Languages in Contact -- 17. Contact and Quechua-External Genetic Relationships -- Part III. Indigenous Languages of Southern and Eastern South America -- 18. Current Status of Argentine Indigenous Languages -- 19. History of the Quichua of Santiago del Estero -- 20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego -- 21. Mapuche Dialect Survey -- 22. Indian Languages of the Paraguayan Chaco -- Index