Endangered Languages Project - Ayoreo - The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Zamucoan Family (Ayoreo, Chamacoco)

Ayoreo

^{[aka Ayoré, Zamuco, Morotoco]}

Classification: Zamucoan

endangered

Extract from: Ciucci, Luca 2011. L'amico di D'Annunzio e la tribù perduta: in Sudamerica alla ricerca dei confini di Babele. Normale: Bollettino dell'Associazione Normalisti XIV, 1-2: 23-28. Online at: <http://www.sns.it/scuola/associazioni/normalisti/bollettino/archivio/1112XIVn12/download/NormaleXIVn12-interno.pdf>

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AUTHOR	Luca Ciucci
UPLOADED BY	Luca Ciucci
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION	L'amico di D'Annunzio e la tribù perduta: in Sudamerica alla ricerca dei confini di Babele
LAST VERSION	2011
ARCHIVED UNDER	Other
LANGUAGE	Other

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Print Media , Ayoreo , Chamacoco , Zamucoan , ayoreo , chamacoco , Outreach & Awareness

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Luca Ciucci

Cairns QLD, Australia

Luca Ciucci (James Cook University) studied linguistics at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, in Italy. Moved by a passion for learning new languages, in September 2007 he began his research on the Zamucoan languages (Ayoreo, Chamacoco and Old Zamuco) with a special focus on morphology and the genetic relationships between these languages spoken in southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay. In 2009 he discovered the earliest grammar of Ecuadorian Quechua. His doctoral dissertation, defended in April 2013, concerned the study of the morphology in Zamucoan and his recent book Inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages (published by CEADUC) is considered the most detailed morphological description of a South American language family. He is now working on a descriptive grammar of Chamacoco (Ebitoso), an endangered and undescribed language spoken in Paraguay by approximately 1,800 speakers. He aims at preserving a part of our cultural heritage through language documentation.

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