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Dâw (Brazil) : Language Contexts

Obert, Karolin LU and Fontanelli Santos, João Vitor (2022) In Language Documentation and Description p.1-16
Abstract
The Dâw people are a small hunting-gathering-oriented group of 142 individuals who inhabit the single Waruá community located at the right bank of the Rio Negro opposite the town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Amazonas State, Brazil). Dâw is a member of the small Naduhup family that is being actively transmitted across generations. Despite the language’s vitality, the Dâw people have been facing drastic changes over the last decades, which impacts both their linguistic and cultural behavior. Here, we provide a description of the linguistic and ethnographic context of the Dâw people and their language, including topics such as genetic affiliation, sociolinguistic contexts, contact history, and social and political organization.
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10.25894/ldd.323
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  author       = {{Obert, Karolin and Fontanelli Santos, João Vitor}},
  issn         = {{1740-6234}},
  keywords     = {{Naduhup; Upper Rio Negro; Ethnohistory; Language Documentation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--16}},
  series       = {{Language Documentation and Description}},
  title        = {{Dâw (Brazil) : Language Contexts}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.25894/ldd.323}},
  doi          = {{10.25894/ldd.323}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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