Evidence for the identification of Carabayo, the language of an uncontacted people of the Colombian Amazon, as belonging to the Tikuna-Yurí linguistic family. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 This paper provides evidence for the identification of the language of the uncontacted indigenous group called Carabayo, who live in voluntary isolation in the Colombian Amazon region.
Seifart F, Echeverri JA.
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Relacionamentos históricos entre áreas endêmicas na região tropical da América do Sul utilizando a Análise de Parcimônia de Brooks (BPA) [PDF]
, 2009 Areas of endemism are the smallest units of biogeographical analysis. One of its definitions is that these areas harbor organisms with restricted distributions caused by non random historical factors.
CARVALHO, Claudio José Barros de +1 more
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Language documentation and archives in South America [PDF]
, 2008 This paper addresses a set of issues related to language documentation that are not often explicitly dealt with in academic publications, yet are highly important for the development and success of this new discipline.
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Traversing language barriers: 'Witoto' signal drums from Northwest Amazonia [PDF]
, 2019 The 'Witoto' people from Northwest Amazonia practised long distance drum communication, used for relying messages among their villages. The messages were encoded on a pair of hollowed-out wooden drums, and appear to have been 'drummed codes', with only ...
Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.
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Professor Using NEH Summer Stipend for Language Study [PDF]
, 2022 Stephen Fafulas studying indigenous communities along the Peruvian ...
Smith, Edwin B.
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Language Documentation in the Americas [PDF]
, 2014 In the last decades, the documentation of endangered languages has advanced greatly in the Americas. In this paper we survey the role that international funding programs have played in advancing documentation in this part of the world, with a particular ...
Franchetto, Bruna, Rice, Keren
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Talking to the spirits: A jungle-at-night register of the Murui people from the Northwest Amazon [PDF]
, 2019 The jungle, especially at night, is seen by the Murui as extremely dangerous and full of threats. At night, when one is away from the safety of their own settlements (e.g. when walking in the forest or paddling on the river), it is imperative to employ a
Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.
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Finding the Taste of Knowledge: The Orphan in Indigenous Epistemologies [PDF]
, 2015 Following the suggestions of my indigenous consultants, that to better understand their theories of knowledge one has to start from myth, I take here their myth, “The origin of education” as the starting point for analyzing the alchemical processes of ...
Micarelli, Giovanna
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Investigation of the effect of Stalanev (Stavudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine) treatment on plasma lactate levels in adults attending Beatrice Road and Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital opportunistic infections clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe [PDF]
, 2012 A journal article on the effects of Stalanev (Stavudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine) treatment on patients suffering from HV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.HIV/AIDS has become a significant public health problem in Zimbabwe, threatening the socio-economic fibre of the ...
Malunga, G. +3 more
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Some notes on aspects of Nonuya (Witotoan) grammar [PDF]
, 2016 With an exception of two brief phonetic/phonological analyses of Nonuya (Witotoan), there are no other studies on the language. This talk presents the first preliminary analysis of a number of grammatical features of the language, based on the word lists
Wojtylak, Kasia
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