Projektnummer

0055527

Zusammenfassung

The aim of the project is a multimedia documentation of the Baure language, spoken in the Bolivian Amazonia. Baure is seriously endangered, and Spanish is the dominant language: the latest census counted 56 speakers and semi-speakers; all speakers are older than 70 years; active transmission of Baure stopped at least 30 years ago. In the final phase the project will concentrate on rounding of the Baure archive (by Danielsen) and the finalization of two PhD theses: (1) Femmy Admiraal is working on the grammar of space in Baure. She already identified the various kinds of locative constr...