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  1. Omurano Field Materials

    • Collection identifier: 2014-14
    • Primary contributors: Rafael Inuma Macusi (consultant); Simón Inuma Manizari (consultant); Teolinda Inuma Vela (consultant); Jorge Macusi Nuribe (consultant); José Manuel Macusi Nuribe (consultant); Juan Macusi Nuribe (consultant); Francisco Murayari Macusi (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID)
    • Additional contributors: Catalino Valencia Paima (consultant); Manuel Berjón Martínez (interviewer, participant); Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo (interviewer, participant); Sonia Caritimari Huansi (participant); Gilter Yuyarima Tapullima (participant)
    • Languages: Omurano (omu); Urarina (ura)
    • Dates: 2011-2013
    • Historical information: Omurano is a language isolate formerly spoken in the headwaters of the Urituyacu River, a left-bank tributary of the Marañón River in the Loreto Region of northeast Peru. The materials that constitute this collection were produced by Zachary O'Hagan and rememberers of Omurano during two field trips, one an exploratory trip in 2011 to Nueva Alianza, the community at the mouth of the Urituyacu River, the other a lengthier trip in 2013 to several communities on the Urituyacu proper (Cafetal, Juan Velasco, Progreso I, Caimituyo, Triunfo, Lupunayo, San Antonio de Banal, San Luis, Guineal, and 8 de Octubre). The goal was to locate as many individuals as possible with some knowledge -- lexical, grammatical, historical -- of the Omurano language and/or people. The 2013 field trip was conducted in the company of Fathers Miguel Ángel Cadenas and Manuel Berjón, then priests at the parish of Santa Rita de Casia in Santa Rita de Castilla (Marañón River), and Sisters Nancy Roca and Eli Quiroz. Omurano data is restricted to a few dozen lexical items and basic phrases, and is significantly interspersed with Urarina language data, a neighboring isolate that is now the dominant language of daily life in the Urituyacu basin, and at times it is difficult to decipher what is Omurano and what is Urarina. All audio was recorded on an H4N Zoom digital recorder with an Audio-Technica 803B lavalier microphone. Funding for this research came from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant administered by the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
    • Scope and content: Audio recordings, scanned field notes, and photographs that derive from interviews and elicitation sessions concerning the Omurano language the regional history of the Urituyacu river basin
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Rafael Inuma Macusi, Simón Inuma Manizari, Teolinda Inuma Vela, Jorge Macusi Nuribe, José Manuel Macusi Nuribe, Juan Macusi Nuribe, Francisco Murayari Macusi, and Zachary O'Hagan. Omurano Field Materials, 2014-14, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29K488M.
    • Associated materials: SCL 2016-05 Songs from the Urituyacu River

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    • Item identifier: 2014-14.005
    • Date: 17 Jun 2013
    • Contributors: Simón Inuma Manizari (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID); Manuel Berjón Martínez (participant); Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo (participant)
    • Language: Omurano (omu)
    • Place: 8 de Octubre, Urarinas, Loreto, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: Includes entire recording and segmented files of individual lexical items and basic phrases; recording made in community center during a two-day long workshop for the Urarina-speaking population of the downriver Urituyacu communities organized by the parish of Santa Rita de Casia
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation of lexicon and basic phrases, 2014-14.005, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23691.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.006
    • Date: 18 Jun 2013
    • Contributors: Jorge Macusi Nuribe (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID); Manuel Berjón Martínez (participant); Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo (participant)
    • Languages: Omurano (omu); Urarina (ura)
    • Place: 8 de Octubre, Urarinas, Loreto, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: Consultant demonstrates his knowledge of Omurano to a fellow Urarina-speaker, with frequent code-switching between the two languages and Spanish; recording made in community center during a two-day long workshop for the Urarina-speaking population of the downriver Urituyacu communities organized by the parish of Santa Rita de Casia
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Exemplification of Omurano phrases in dialogue, 2014-14.006, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23692.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.007
    • Date: 18 Jun 2013
    • Contributors: Simón Inuma Manizari (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID); Manuel Berjón Martínez (participant); Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo (participant)
    • Language: Omurano (omu)
    • Place: 8 de Octubre, Urarinas, Loreto, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: Includes entire recording and segmented files of individual lexical items and basic phrases; recording made in community center during a two-day long workshop for the Urarina-speaking population of the downriver Urituyacu communities organized by the parish of Santa Rita de Casia
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation of toponyms, 2014-14.007, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23693.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.008
    • Date: 27 Jun 2013
    • Contributors: Catalino Valencia Paima (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID); Manuel Berjón Martínez (interviewer, participant); Miguel Ángel Cadenas Cardo (interviewer, participant)
    • Languages: [unspecified]
    • Place: Iquitos, Maynas, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: The consultant, a native Spanish speaker born in Iquitos, was a resident of the Urituyacu basin beginning in 1945, and employed many Omurano- and Urarina-speaking families in the extraction of natural resources over the following several decades; recording was made in the courtyard of a retirement home
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Urituyacu history interview, 2014-14.008, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23694.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.009
    • Date: 02 Aug 2013 to 03 Aug 2013
    • Contributors: Rafael Inuma Macusi (consultant); Juan Macusi Nuribe (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID)
    • Language: Omurano (omu)
    • Place: Nueva Alianza, Urarinas, Loreto, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: Review of material collected in June 2013 on the Urituyacu proper; recordings made in the schoolhouse at the listed location
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Elicitation of lexicon, basic phrases, and sociohistorical facts, 2014-14.009, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23695.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.011
    • Date: 2011 to 2013
    • Contributor: Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID)
    • Language: Omurano (omu)
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Ancillary documents, 2014-14.011, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23697.
    • Item identifier: 2014-14.012
    • Date: 2013
    • Contributor: Zachary O'Hagan (donor; ORCID)
    • Language: Urarina (ura)
    • Place: 8 de Octubre, Urarinas, Loreto, Loreto, Peru
    • Description: High-quality scans of wwo maps of Urituyacu toponyms and hydronyms in Spanish and Urarina, drawn by participants in two-day long workshop for the Urarina-speaking population of the downriver Urituyacu communities organized by the parish of Santa Rita de Casia
    • Availability: Online access
    • Collection: Omurano Field Materials
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Maps, 2014-14.012, in "Omurano Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23699.