Alfredo Augusto Torero Fernández de Córdova (*
September 10,
1930 in
Huacho,
Lima Region,
Peru, †
June 19,
2004 in
Valencia) was a
Peruvian anthropologist and
linguist.
Alfredo Torero came to prominence thanks to his article "The Dialects of Quechua" in 1964 and ranks among the founders of Andean Linguistics. Much of his work is characterised by bringing into his linguistic investigations ao cultural aspects of the Andean peoples. Besides Quechua and Aymara, he researched extinct languages such as Mochica and Puquina.
The present classification of the Quechua language family is based fundamentally on his analysis and those of his colleague Gary Parker, who independently came to similar results. One particularly important finding of his research is that Quechua did not originate, as is still popularly believed, in the region of the Inca capital Cuzco but far to the north in Central Peru - or more specifically in the scenario Torero proposes, on the Central Coast in the Lima Region.
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