Atilio Gonzales, a Yanesha craftsman and artist, mentions several Yanesha words…

The following narrative includes excerpts from ‘Since The Age Of Our Grandfathers’, a travelogue which is part of a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled ‘The Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages (UPIL), where it is all about the voices, accents, and speech patterns of indigenous people anywhere in the world, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addition to that, everybody is free to introduce themselves and speak their minds openly in their respective, often endangered, languages and dialects, without any paraphrases or expectations. So, let the story go on from there… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ8NJV31?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_sirpi https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNRRR83W?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520 ••• “I speak only some Yanesha. For example, for dog, we say ‘oochec’. And, for chicken, we say ‘atóllop’. So, I know a little, but I don’t know it well. And for you guys, who are not from around here, who don’t come from the forest, we use the word ‘oc’. It means not being part of our community not being Yanesha. So, the word ‘oc’ means ‘foreigner’.” ••• Messyna, an international student of English and Spanish, repeats and pronounces Atilio Gonzales’s examples in the Yanesha language… ••• atóllop /a’TALL-yup/ chicken oochec /’OH-checkh/ dog ••• Oc /OHqh/ This is the Yanesha word for mestizo, gringo, or any white or tall person. Literally, it refers to anyone not living in the rainforest. Other words and meanings derived from it include… - Ocanesha’ Mestizo population - Ocach Mestizo language, Spanish, or Castilian Spanish - Ocom Mestizo clothing - Ocrech Mestizo music, or singing in Spanish ••• The Yanesha culture is located in the Amazon rainforest, mostly in the upper regions of the eastern slope of the Andes, in Peru. The Yanesha language belongs to the larger Arawak language family. It uses words for items the meaning of which is difficult to conceptualize in a European language like Spanish. An indigenous language like Yanesha is deeply intertwined with many cultural traditions. ••• Interview conducted in the Yanesha village of Tsachopen, near Oxapampa, Peru, by Marco Rixecker and Luis Deza León https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, September 2025 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O ••• At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…••• Radio Aula MundiCentro Cultural & Turistico Aula MundiAula Mundi Cultural Travel Centerhttps://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi •••