The Amahuaca people number fewer than 1,000 individuals, of whom only 330 speak the Native language. For the first time, thanks to the work of Wilkinson College’s Dr. Pilar Valenzuela, representatives from all the Amahuaca villages gathered in the city of Pucallpa in Peru to assess the status of their Native language and prepare a
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $344,690 grant to Dr. Pilar Valenzuela (World Languages and Cultures in Wilkinson College) and Robert Zariquiey for their project, Computational Tool and Corpora Development in Language with Complex Clause-marketing. About the project: The Amawaka are an Indigenous Amazonian people from Peru and Brazil. Their language, also called Amawaka, belongs
On Thursday, Nov. 25, while Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving, the Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon were commemorating the 58th anniversary of the implementation of Bilingual Schools in their communities. Their keynote speaker was Pilar Valenzuela, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Languages at Chapman University, who delivered the talk titled “The Languages of the