{"id":8894,"date":"2014-01-15T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/no-loss-for-words\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:16:37","slug":"no-loss-for-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/no-loss-for-words\/","title":{"rendered":"No Loss For Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=dornsife-global\">Dornsife Global<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>No Loss For Words<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Silva\u2019s project, currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\u2019s grant for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DEL\/NEH), aims to document Desano, an indigenous language, spoken in Brazil and Colombia.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Susan Bell<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">January 15, 2014<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" 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Desano is also spoken in Colombia where the number of fluent speakers is higher. The language belongs to the Eastern Tukanoan language family, a group of 16 languages spoken by small groups fundamentally segregated by language. The estimated number of people speaking all the Eastern Tukanoan languages is 28,000.<\/p>\n<p>An endangered language is one that has very few native speakers, or is in danger of extinction due to many factors, for example, lack of recognition by the government, the spread of the dominant local language or lack of resources for its continual education within the community.<\/p>\n<p>Since the mid-19th century, the number of Desano speakers is decreasing. One reason for the language&rsquo;s decline is that the people are leaving their traditional lifestyle and moving to the urban areas, where Portuguese, Brazil&rsquo;s official language, is spoken. Fewer and fewer children are learning to speak Desano.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-bottom: 5px; width: 350px; padding-top: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Amazon3-1585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<h5>Undergraduate research assistant, Evangeline Alva, transcribing Desano words in the field. Photo Credit: DLDP Team 2013 (c) Copyright. All rights Reserved.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Rather than transmitting Desano to their children, parents are starting to enforce the lingua franca or Spanish or Portuguese because they want them to be able to assimilate into other cities in Brazil or Colombia,&rdquo; Alva said. &ldquo;So there is little emphasis on preserving language and cultural practices at home.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is aggravated by the fact that the last pure speakers are dying. Little educational materials are available for schools.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, Alva worked under the supervision of Dr. Silva, Rochester Institute of Technology&rsquo;s linguist and the director of the Desano Language Documentation Project. Alva&rsquo;s fieldwork experience was funded by Dr. Silva&rsquo;s Desano Language Research Project (DEL\/NEH grant). Since its beginning in 2007, the Desano Language Documentation Project has received funds from the Endangered Language Fund (ELF), The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (ELDP\/SOAS), the National Science Foundation (DEL\/NSF), and the Museu do &Iacute;ndio of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Also helping to fund Alva&rsquo;s participation in the project was USC Dornsife&rsquo;s Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF), undertaken with the guidance of her mentor Khalil Iskarous, assistant professor of linguistics at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<p>Her focus during the linguistic fieldwork experience was to assist with the Desano Language Documentation Project, and, more specifically, to work with the indigenous researcher to enter written and visual data into the digital dictionary database, one of the main goals of the project.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I also helped record how Desano-speakers interpret time and define color, their typical lifestyle and their old stories that carried on into modern day beliefs,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I studied whether they still maintain the tradition of marrying out into another tribe, as well as taboo subjects such as sexuality and religion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A typical day for Alva included an average of seven to eight hours of work, which included assisting Dr. Silva by transcribing and translating Desano data, and assisting the indigenous research assistant with the digital database.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-bottom: 5px; width: 350px; padding-top: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Amazon4-1585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<h5>Desano indigenous researcher, Gelison Paulo C. Aguiar, demonstrates how indigenous women carry a basket. Photo Credit: DLDP Team 2013 (c) copyright. All rights Reserved.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alva also worked with Gelison, a 27 year-old native Desano-speaker and physics undergraduate at IFAM (a Federal Institution in S&atilde;o Gabriel da Cachoeira). Gelison is one of three language consultants working with Dr. Silva to visually document the Desano-speakers&rsquo; environment. The team of consultants also collects auditory data on the stories and legends of Desano culture, dialects and cultural differences between groups, as well as personal tales of how people resisted colonization.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The local consultants are very passionate about preserving their culture and language,&rdquo; Alva said. &ldquo;They want to develop materials to teach in the community as well as in the public schools along the river.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She helped Dr. Silva to apply language games he had developed, aimed at the elicitation of natural occurring speech with information about location, directions, and color terms. Alva found her experience in the Amazon to be immensely enriching.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I lived amongst the natives, ate their food, studied their culture and traditions, and learned their history through transcribing and translating legends and folk tales. I couldn&rsquo;t have asked for a better research experience to help me with my future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Silva\u2019s project, currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\u2019s grant for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DEL\/NEH), aims to document Desano, an indigenous language, spoken in Brazil and Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,15],"tags":[1507,684,155,1508],"class_list":["post-8894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dornsife-global","category-student","category-sustainability","tag-endangered-languages","tag-khalil-iskarous","tag-linguistics","tag-usc-dornsifes-summer-undergraduate-research-fund"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Loss For Words<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/no-loss-for-words\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Loss For Words\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). 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