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Metadata
Title:Letter to a friend
Edu96LetterT
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Raquel
Speaker7
Coverage:Brazil
Date:1996-10-01
Description:ENGLISH: Letter written by a Trumai student in 1996 (it is not a real letter. It is just an activity made during a Trumai class). It is a short letter to a friend, telling the news. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Carta escrita por uma estudante Trumai em 1996 (não se trata de uma carta real. É apenas um exercício feito durante aulas de escrita em Trumai). Trata-se de uma pequena carta a uma amiga, contando as novidades.
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.
Letter written by a Trumai student in 1996 (it is not a real letter. It is just an activity made during a Trumai class).
The text was produced in Trumai. It was translated into Portuguese with the help of its author (the translation is not totally literal; sometimes it had some editing). The text was further translated into English by the researcher.
The author of the text is Speaker7.
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).
Speaker7 is a native speaker of Trumai. Her mother is Trumai, her father is Kamayurá. She is married to a Kayabi man, and has a little daughter. She is a school teacher and is engaged in the educational program that is trying to revitalize the language. Speaker7 has worked in the production of educational materials; she teaches Trumai to her students.
Format:application/pdf
text/x-toolbox-text
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3CBE-3
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Letter
Trumai tradition
Trumai language
Trumaí
Portuguese language
English language
Subject (ISO639):tpy
por
eng
Type:text

OLAC Info

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DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Raquel; Speaker7. 1996-10-01. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_GB country_PT iso639_eng iso639_por iso639_tpy

Inferred Metadata

Country: BrazilUnited KingdomPortugal
Area: AmericasEurope


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