Chorote-Spanish dictionary

 

Language	Iyojwa’ja (Chorote)
Depositor	Nicholas Drayson
Affiliation	ASocIANA (Acompañamiento Social de la Iglesia Anglicana del Norte Argentino)
Location	Argentina
Collection ID	0080
Grant ID
Funding Body
Collection Status	Collection online
Landing Page Handle	http://hdl.handle.net/2196/56cbb03d-b2d0-4301-bbb0-23f739931919

 

Summary of the collection

Diccionario Iyojwa’ja ‘Lij – Kilay ‘Lij (Chorote-Spanish Dictionary).

 

Group represented

Chorotes in Salta Province (Argentina) – Matako-Mataguayo language family, hunter gatherers in Chaco semi arid tropical forest.

 

Collection contents

Introduction; Wordlist, giving reference to class of word, variations of meaning, plural and feminine forms, cross-references, cultural clarifications, examples of usage, alternative grammatical forms, scientific classification; Appendices – grammar outline; place-names; neighbouring languages; geographical data.

 

Collection history

These materials were collected over two periods of six years, as part of a project to provide bilingual educational materials and translations. The author lived almost continually with the Chorote people during this time.

 

Acknowledgement and citation

The author is happy for data to be used for fieldwork or other research provided it is credited.

To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:

Drayson, Nicholas. 2010. Chorote-Spanish dictionary. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0001-9CAD-6. Accessed on [insert date here].