Description and Documentation of the Apurinã (Arawak) Language of Brazil: Grammar, Dictionary and Text Collection
| Language | Apurinã |
| Depositor | Sidney Facundes |
| Affiliation | Universidade Federal do Pará |
| Location | Brazil |
| Collection ID | 0203 |
| Grant ID | FTG0007 |
| Funding Body | ELDP |
| Collection Status | Collection online |
| Landing Page Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2196/4ad42d29-6134-4c9e-8535-2a394677ba20 |
Summary of the collection
Apurinã belongs to the Arawak family, with a few hundreds of speakers scattered along the tributaries of the Purus river basin, in Northwestern Brazilian Amazon. The collection here includes a preliminary sketch of the grammar of the language, a lexicon for fauna and flora and a few texts transcribed and interlinearized.
Group represented
Although the work on the language started with Sidi Facundes, as a graduate student, a team was created to include undergraduate students and, later, graduate students, with the aim of contributing to the description of the language, and to prepare materials to aid in the language strengthening and survival.
Language information
Arawak family, 500-800 speakers, OV correlates, VO most frequent.
Special characteristics
The data presented here for Apurinã is the first collected and analyzed by a professional linguist, after many fieldtrips.
Collection contents
To be determined
Other information
Use of this data for research and publication require authorization from Sidi Facundes.
Acknowledgement and citation
Use of part of this work should acknowledge Sidi Facundes as the principal investigator, and Angela Fabíola Chagas, Ana Paula Barros Brandão, Eládio Vieira Duarte, and Thiago Vital as collectors and researchers. It should acknowledge the Endangered Language Documentation Programme and the funding agency, and Universidade Federal do Pará as the researchers’ host institution in Brazil.
To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:
Facundes, Sidi. 2006. Description and Documentation of the Apurinã (Arawak) Language of Brazil: Grammar, Dictionary and Text Collection. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B648-1. Accessed on [insert date here].
