Projektnummer

0054035

Zusammenfassung

This project is a continuation of the DobeS project "Documenting Movima, an unclassified language of the Moxos region (Bolivia)" which has been running since May 2006. The aim of the project is a multimedia documentation of Movima, an unclassified language spoken in and around the old missionary town of Santa Ana del Yacuma in the subtropical lowlands of Amazonian Bolivia. Movima is seriously endangered: it is not transmitted to children anymore, and most of the active speakers are over 60 years old. The number of fluent speakers is estimated to be less than 500. The dominant language ...