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 |
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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].