Archive | 2019
Documentação de línguas e culturas indígenas
Abstract
In the last twenty years, international and national academic institutions, cultural foundations and NGOs have been promoting the preservation of cultures and languages in danger of extinction in the near future. Of the approximately 6,000 languages in the world twenty-five disappear each year. Amerindian languages, especially Amazonian, are highly endangered. Different efforts are being made to establish a non-discriminatory policy for the right of “existence, preserving one’s socio-cultural and linguistic dignity regardless of one’s ethnic origin”. This paper presents some of these measures in the context of the documentation of three indigenous cultures and languages: Apalai, Cashinahua and Wayana.