Historical information: Ticuna is a language isolate spoken by approximately 60,000 people living in on and near the main course of the Amazon River in northern Peru, southern Colombia, and western Brazil. The data archived here, part of a collection under continuous development, were collected by Amalia Skilton during field trips to the towns of Caballococha and Cushillococha, located in the district and province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto, Peru. As of 2015-2019, Caballococha was a multi-ethnic town of about 15,000 people in which the dominant language was Spanish. Cushillococha, located 8km overland from Caballococha, was a monoethnic Ticuna community of about 4,000 people in which the dominant language was Ticuna. Skilton was a graduate student at UC Berkeley between 2014 and 2019. Her fieldwork between 2015 and 2017 was supported by Oswalt Grants from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Fieldwork between August 1, 2017 and October 1, 2019 was supported by NSF BCS-1741571. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. All file bundles consisting of recordings contain a text README file with detailed metadata.
Scope and content: Primary materials (e.g., audio recordings), derived products (e.g., transcriptions and translations), and analyses of Ticuna. This collection includes *only* materials derived from conversations and naturally occurring discourses, i.e. discourses that could have occurred in similar form if the researcher was not present. Some are scanned files that correspond to physical field notebooks. In order to render the language easier to type, transcriptions and some analyses are written in a ASCII practical orthography which does not have a transparent relationship to the IPA. Bundle 038 contains a guide to the practical orthography.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Angel Bitancourt Serra and Amalia Horan Skilton. Ticuna conversations, 2018-19, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F769QD.
Associated materials: 2015-06 ("Ticuna elicitation and texts"), for materials collected by Amalia Skilton; 2018-20 ("Ticuna experiments"), for experimental materials collected by Amalia Skilton
Description: Recordings of a conversation between two half-brothers in the home of one of them. Conversation was staged by the researcher, who brought one brother (ABS, seated left in recording) to visit the other (WWG).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of a staged conversation between adults, 2018-19.004, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25465.
Item number: 2018-19.026
Date: 13 Jun 2017
Relations to this item:2018-19.019 references this Item
Description: Recordings of two adults coaching a soccer game; recordings of 5 (apparently unrelated) adults in conversation on the sidelines of the game. Names of adults in the conversation recording are unknown.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of adults interacting at a soccer game, 2018-19.026, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25730.
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