Documentation of linguistic and sociocultural practices of the People of the Center, Northwest Amazon

• Main Author: Doris Fagua Rincón
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2015-10-01
• Series: Mundo Amazónico
• Subjects: Amazonia; documentación lingüística; Gente de centro; bora; uitoto; nonuya; ocaina; resígaro
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/imanimundo/article/view/50649

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">Faced with the danger of extinction of native languages, the project “Documenting languages of the People of the Center”, carried through the DoBeS (</span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL'; font-style: italic;">Dokumentatio Bedrohter Sprachen</span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">) program of </span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">mpi </span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">(Max Planck Institute) in partnership with the </span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">iiap </span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt; font-family: 'CharisSIL';">(Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana), illustrates the uses of language documentation as a means to safeguard and protect the Amazon sociocultural heritage. We present here a quick characterization of the People Center, one of the self-designations of the communities in which the project has been carried out, as well as of some of the software and formats used for the sociocultural documentation. Finally, we expose projections for the transfer of the use of those methodological tools to the national and regional communities of speakers of endangered languages and to those who study them. </span></p></div></div></div>