Arutani & Sapé documentation
(2016 - present, w/ Thiago Chacon & Francia Medina)
In Karunkén (photo credit: Aimé Tillett)
Project Description
This project focuses on two small isolates of the border between Venezuela and Brazil: Arutani (ISO: atx) and Sapé (ISO: spc). Working with the last remaining speakers of these two languages and with legacy materials, my colleagues Thiago Chacon (University of Brasilia) and Francia Medina (Universidad Central de Venezuela) and I are engaged in documenting these two little-known languages as much as possible.
Funding
A trilingual Sapé-Spanish-English lexical database. Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS). Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. $6,257 CAD, 2021
(Socio)Linguistic Documentation of Arutani (Uruak), an almost extinct language of Venezuela and Brazil. Jacobs Research Funds. Co-applicant: Thiago Chacon (University of Brasilia). Amount: $ 5,960 USD, 2016-2017
(Socio)Linguistic Documentation of Sapé, an almost extinct language of Venezuela. Endangered Languages Fund. Collaborator: Francia Medina (Universidad Central de Venezuela). Amount: $ 3,000 USD, 2016-2017