SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Alpaca — Diccionario de la lengua española
Documents a second representation.
alpaca¹ — Aymara all-paka- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Real Academia Española and ASALE Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Real Academia Española
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 108
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Do allpaqa, all-paka, and allphaqa imply competing origins?
No. The references use different editorial and official spellings for the Aymara animal word while agreeing on Aymara ancestry.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 108
alpaca
/ælˈpæk.ə/ · noun
An English animal and fiber word borrowed through Spanish from Aymara allpaqa / allphaqa.
01
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
3 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 02supportshistorical dictionary
Alpaca — Word History
Documents one spelling.
Word History — Aymara allpaqa- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
SOURCE 03supportsinstitutional vocabulary
Yatichaña aru pirwa: Vocabulario pedagógico aimara
Documents official modern educational orthography.
p. 120 — allphaqa- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Ministerio de Educación del Perú
- YEAR
- 2020
- PUBLISHER
- Ministerio de Educación del Perú
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Merriam-Webster prints allpaqa, RAE all-paka, and Peru’s Ministry of Education allphaqa.
The dossier promotes the official educational spelling and exposes the alternatives as relatives.