Projektnummer

0054040

Zusammenfassung

The essence of this project consists in the documentation of Cashinahua, an Amazonian language spoken on the Brazil-Peru border. Cashinahua culture is progressively disappearing. Traditional expressions such as 'rites of passage' (tchidin, katcha nawa), traditional chants, and musical instruments are no longer being performed. The language is dying out. The new generation speaks Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish, the national official languages of their countries, neglecting their own language. In the project's phase I starting in 2006, an extensive corpus of new and older linguistic a...