Documentation of the Five Southern Dialects of Yauyos, Parent Subgroup Quechua II A, Quechuan Family

FAIN: FN-50109-12

Aviva W. Shimelman
San Jose State University (San Jose, CA 95192-0001)

The goal of this project is to document all five dialects of the southern variety of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language. The need for documentation is urgent: with perhaps 1,700 speakers and rememberers, the language is nearly extinct and the materials available on and in the language are extremely limited, consisting, essentially, only of what the applicant has been able to collect to date. Specifically, this project will conduct fieldwork to record four of the five dialects in audio and video format; prepare a database of annotated recordings of the four dialects; and prepare a comparative lexicon and sketch grammar of all five dialects. (Edited by staff)

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A grammar of Yauyos Quechua (Book)
Title: A grammar of Yauyos Quechua
Author: Aviva Shimelman
Abstract: This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31324
Primary URL Description: Open access
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Language Science Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9783946234227;
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelman (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelman
Author: Aviva Shimelman
Abstract: Yauyos (ISO 639-3: [qux]) is a critically endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Province of Yauyos, Department of Lima, Peru (http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206 http://multitree.linguistlist.org/trees/10504@124926). Yauyos counts eight more-or-less mutually intelligible dialects. This collection covers only the five southern dialects: Apurí-Madeán-Viñac; Azángaro-Chocos-Huangáscar; Chocos-Hongos; Lincha-Tana; and Liscay-San Pedro de Huacarpana. The collection includes a lexicon (3058 entries); a sketch grammar (172 pp.); a catalogue of medicinal plants; a collection of glossed stories (80 pp.); 86 .wav audio recordings and 51 .mpg video recordings (60GB); 52 .eaf files with time-aligned transcriptions, glosses and translations; and one .txt file compiling all transcriptions, glosses and translations (1182 pp). Recordings total over 24 hours and include stories, songs, riddles, spontaneous dialogue, personal narrative, and descriptions of traditional activities, crafts and healing practices.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla%3A124499
Primary URL Description: Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA), University of Texas, Austin
Access Model: Open access

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