YAB013

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YAB013

Session Information

Title: Life stories

Description: In this session there are videos and audio files in which there are several yuhup talking about their life stories. Along with the audio and video files are plain text files with metadata.Reproduction of this material without prior consultation is prohibited. The material cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Date created: 2020-08-18

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Colombia

Region: Vaupes

Address: Bocas de Uga

Project

ID: IGS0339

Name: 0579-IGS0339

Description: This deposit includes the documentation of the Yuhup variety spoken in the community of Bocas de Ugá in Colombia. Yuhup (ISO code: yab) is a Naduhup language spoken by approximately 550 people in Vaupés, Colombia, and the northwest of the state of Amazonas in Brazil (Franky y Mahecha 1997: 3). In Vaupés, approximately 200 Yuhup live in three communities located in different geographic areas along the Apaporis River and its tributaries (Mahecha et. al. 2000: 134). The community of Bocas de Ugá is one of them. The deposit contains a rich documentary corpus of the Yuhup language, which spans a range of discourse types and genres, documented in audio and video. In total, 76 hours and 8 minutes of recordings have been collected. Of these, 59 hours and 23 minutes correspond to video recordings, and 6 hours and 23 minutes have been transcribed and translated. The transcriptions and translations correspond to words and short phrases. It was not possible to transcribe and translate long texts because the Yuhup until now were learning to write, and because the first fieldwork was short. The transcribed and translated material from the first fieldwork was used to create the first preliminary version of the illustrated dictionary. The dictionary currently has 832 lexical entries, including 644 of which are accompanied by an audio file and 256 which have a drawing that young Yuhup made during fieldwork. In the deposit there is also a sociolinguistic survey that was carried out in the community of Bocas de Ugá, a photographic collection showing the route that must be taken to reach the community of Bocas de Ugá, and the daily life of the Yuhup, and elicited data transcribed and translated in Praat. Additional activities were also carried out during the first year of the grant, which contributed to the enrichment of the project. Lorena Orjuela created educational materials that will be used in the literacy process of the Yuhup. They consist of a collection of 5 games with instructions and a collection of CDs with songs sung by the Yuhup elders.