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Title:Myth: the River Turtles
Edu96M-Turtle
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker21
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:1996-09-24
Description:ENGLISH: Text written by a Trumai student in 1996. It is a short version of a myth about river turtles that climb a tree in order to eat fruits and fall from it because of a tapir. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Texto escrito por uma estudante Trumai em 1996. Trata-se de uma pequena versão de um mito sobre tracajás que sobem em um pé de genipapo para comer as furtas e são derrubados de lá por uma anta.
The purpose of the project is to document Trumai, a genetically isolate language spoken in Brazil. The archive consists of a collection of texts in the language, plus other kinds of materials relative to the Trumai culture, such as photos, drawings, songs, educational materials, etc.
Myth about the river turtles and the tapir.
The text was originally writen in Trumai. It was translated into Portuguese and English by the researcher, with the help of the Trumai speaker.
The author of the text is Speaker21.
Speaker21 is a native speaker of Trumai. Her father is Trumai, her mother is Aweti. When the text was produced, her family was living in the Terra Preta village. Now they live in another location in the Xingu reserve.
Raquel is a Brazilian linguist. She has been working with the Trumai people since 1989. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A).
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Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3C6E-A
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Trumai traditions
Trumai language
Trumaí
English language
Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):tpy
eng
por

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Citation: Speaker21; Raquel. 1996-09-24. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
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