Aë ëë, aë ëë,ëëë, aaë, ëëë, a ë,ëëë aë! Iro yakɨ wë̃rĩ ɨmɨ ãɨ̃ɨ̃! Iro, iro, iro iro,iro, iro, iroo! Summary of deposit
Yanomama is a Yanomami language of the Yanomam group and has around 1350 speakers 300, of which live in Papiu, Brazil.
This collection will be a continuation of the documentation and support of Yanomama. The main goals are:
- to record, transcribe and translate 20 hours of audio and/or visual material of a variety of contexts of speech; 5 hours will be fully glossed
- to create an online multimedia dictionary of the Yanomama
- to publish textbooks of Yanomama folk literature and testimonial narratives;
- to train local language consultants in documentation.