Bolsas do ELF v ão para o estudo do Akuntsú e do Shiwilu

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Dois projetos sobre línguas sul-americanas (vide abaixo), das lingüistas Pilar Valenzuela (Shiwilu) e Carolina Aragon (Akuntsú), estão entre os 10 ganhadores de bolsas do Endangered Language Fund para 2009.

Projetos para a rodada de 2010 podem ser enviados até o dia 20 de abril de 2010.  Para detalhes, visite 
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/request.html

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[As descrições abaixo foram extraídas do boletim do ELF, disponível em
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/pdf/ELF_October_2009_newsletter.pdf]

Carolina Coelho Aragon (University of Utah): Documentation of Akuntsú 

The Akuntsú tribe is currently located near the Omerê River in Rondônia, Brazil where its members settled after experiencing a devastating genocide. Only six members of the tribe survived, all of whom are monolingual speakers of Akuntsú. The tribe was first contacted in 1996 by the National Indian Foundation. None of the survivors have or plan to have children, and the tribe will disappear. These circumstances prompted linguistic documentation of Akuntsú to commence in 2004. This award will fund additional fieldwork focusing on syntactic analysis while refining the morphology, improving the phonology description, and recording ethnographic materials relating to tribal songs, folktales, oral traditions, religious ceremonies, and other cultural activities. Given that the six remaining Akuntsú are monolingual, the fieldwork will consist of the researcher living with the group, participating in daily activities and asking questions in Akuntsú rather than relying on conventional linguistic elicitation techniques. The long-term objective of this project is the creation of a complete reference grammar and a dictionary. 

[ISO 639-3 language code: aqz (under review)] 


Pilar M. Valenzuela (Chapman University): Awakening Shiwilu Voices 

Shiwilu, also known as Jebero, is spoken in the Amazon in northeastern Peru. Approximately 20 elders speak Shiwilu, the youngest fluent speaker being about sixty years old. This language revitalization project will take place in conjunction with a documentation project funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The goals of "Awakening Shiwilu Voices" are to encourage the use of Shiwilu among the fluent elders and among speakers with more limited knowledge, to produce a collection of audio recordings and pedagogical materials for teaching Shiwilu as a second language, and to teach Shiwilu to a group of thirty children. Conversation sessions will be led by Mr. Meneleo Careajano, a Shiwilu cultural leader. Mr. Careajano and other participants will be trained in recording, transcribing, and translating ethnographic materials. These materials will be used for language instruction and will be made available, along with their Spanish translations, on a specially designed Web site for use by linguists, social scientists, and the general public. 

[ISO 639-3 language code: jeb] 


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