Severino retells the narrative he has just watched on the video (MPI video stimuli: The Mouse and the Apple Tree) Severino reconta a estória que acabou de assistir em vídeo (MPI vídeo-estímulos: O Rato e a Macieira) Severino anɨ utupë ha taarɨnɨ thë taapënaha thãa wëaɨ kõoma (MPI vídeo-estímulos: Paho anɨ wamotima thëkɨ heka harayuu wei thãa) 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.