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Title:Events in the life of an old woman
RG03Lembranca
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker8
Speaker9
Speaker5
Raquel
Speaker7
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2003-09-29
Description:ENGLISH: Conversation between an old woman and her grandchildren, talking about the villages where the old woman lived, her first trip to a city, and the first time she saw Whitemen. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Conversa entre uma mulher idosa e os netos, falando as aldeias onde ela viveu, a primeira viagem a uma cidade, e a primeira vez em que ela viu homens "brancos".
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.
An old woman and her grandchildren chat about events that happened in her life, in special her first trip to a city outside the Xingu reserve and her first contacts with Whitemen.
The speakers talk in Trumai.
The conversation involves four Trumai speakers: an old woman (Speaker5), two young women (Speaker7 and Speaker8) and a man (Speaker9).
Speaker8 is a native speaker of Trumai. Her mother is Trumai, her father is Waurá. She was married for a while; nowadays she is separated, living with her parents and her little son.
Speaker9 is a native speaker of Trumai. His mother is Trumai, his father is Waurá. Speaker9 writes well in Trumai; he is also an artist, producing beautiful drawings and paintings.
Speaker5 is the oldest Trumai speaker alive. She lives with one of her grand-daughters. Her husband was Kamayurá. Speaker5 has never learned to speak Portuguese, and for this reasons all her children grandchildren had to learn Trumai, in order to communicate with her. They claim that the Trumai variety that Speaker5 speaks is a little different from the variety they speak nowadays (Speaker5 uses archaic terms and old expressions). She is an old woman (70 or more).
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:audio/x-wav
MD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3CDD-9
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Conversation
Events of the past
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):tpy
Type:audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3CDD-9
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Speaker8; Speaker9; Speaker5; Raquel; Speaker7. 2003-09-29. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas country_BR iso639_tpy

Inferred Metadata

Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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