Reference Grammar of Kotiria Wanano Stenzel KristinePaperback softback
Reference Grammar of Kotiria Wanano Stenzel KristinePaperback softback Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. The Kotirias,…
Specifikacia Reference Grammar of Kotiria Wanano Stenzel KristinePaperback softback
Reference Grammar of Kotiria Wanano Stenzel KristinePaperback softback
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in the complex Vaup s social system, characterized by long-standing linguistic and cultural interaction. Mellon FoundationThis volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest.
Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people, and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is in risk of The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when increasing outside influence in the region triggered rapid social and linguistic change.