It has been estimated that up to 45% of Peru’s ca. 33 million people is Amerindian. Almost 50 different indigenous groups, speaking their own languages, inhabit the country’s Andean and Amazonian regions. Until recently it was almost impossible for Native parents to officially register their children using proper names in their own languages, either because
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
Dr. Valenzuela leads linguistics workshop for native teachers in the Amazon Pilar Valenzuela,Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Languages, Wilkinson College,recently led a four-day workshop to analyze the grammar of Shawi, an indigenouslanguage spoken in the Province of Alto Amazonas, in northeastern Peru. The workshop took place in Yurimaguas, a small town on the banks of