Matthias Urban is principal investigator of the Junior Research Group “The language dynamics of the ancient Central Andes”, hosted by the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)’s Emmy Noether Programme. Having held prior appointments at the universities of Leiden, Marburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, his research interests include historical linguistics, in particular of the Andes, language contact, and linguistic typology.

• 1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages.- 2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family.- 3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages.- 4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru.- 5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands.- 6. Chachapoyas.- 7. Synopsis and conclusion.

Matthias Urban is principal investigator of the Junior Research Group “The language dynamics of the ancient Central Andes”, hosted by the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)’s Emmy Noether Programme. Having held prior appointments at the universities of Leiden, Marburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, his research interests include historical linguistics, in particular of the Andes, language contact, and linguistic typology.

• 1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages.- 2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family.- 3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages.- 4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru.- 5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands.- 6. Chachapoyas.- 7. Synopsis and conclusion.

Matthias Urban is principal investigator of the Junior Research Group “The language dynamics of the ancient Central Andes”, hosted by the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)’s Emmy Noether Programme. Having held prior appointments at the universities of Leiden, Marburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, his research interests include historical linguistics, in particular of the Andes, language contact, and linguistic typology.

• 1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages.- 2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family.- 3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages.- 4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru.- 5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands.- 6. Chachapoyas.- 7. Synopsis and conclusion.