Teaching Tariana, an endangered language from Northwest Amazonia

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ID3144533
AuthorsAlexandra Y Aikhenvald (0000-0003-1866-7869, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume2003
Issue161
Pages125-139
Publication date2003-01-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl.2003.025
OpenAlexW2007466942
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

Tariana is an endangered language spoken by about one hundred people in a remote area of northwest Amazonia, Brazil. The language is spoken in a fascinating area where one can only marry someone who speaks a different language and who belongs to a different ethnic group. Tariana is being rapidly displaced by an unrelated language, Tucano. Plans to implement teaching Tariana in the secondary school in Iauaretê, a local mission center, started to take shape in 1999, several years after the author began her fieldwork on this language. In June 2000, a workshop on Tariana literacy was held, with over three hundred participants, having different levels of competence. The paper describes the ups and downs of the workshop, the ways in which pedagogical materials were worked out, and what problems the organizers had to confront

Amazon rainforest · Biology · Endangered species · Ethnic group · Geography · Linguistics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · History · Language and cultural evolution · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Ecology

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