Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- This semester we hosted 16 in-person visits! Six were community research visits sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival or the CLA's Community Research Grant, representing Miwokan, Nisenan, Salinan, Tachi, Washoe, and Wuksachi languages. Four were by individuals working with Kashaya, Ktunaxa, Patwin, and Wappo. The remainder included family groups, Ukiah-area high school students, prospective graduate students, SLUgS, and tribal and state governmental leaders. Five more languages were represented among these groups.
- Wesley dos Santos (PhD 2024) has added several hundred audiovisual recordings of elicitation sessions, texts, and songs from 2020 forward in Júma and Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau (Tupí-Guaraní; Brazil) to the collection Kawahiva Language Documentation Archive (see file bundles 2019-06.051 through 2019-06.060).
- We've accessioned the Colección de grabaciones sonoras de la lengua ashaninka de Mariscela Amador Hernández (Arawakan; Peru) consisting of eight cassette tape recordings from circa 1984. The tapes were discovered in 2021 in a Dwinelle Hall office that was about to be remodeled. They were only labeled with the names of the speakers, without information about the language or researcher.
- We've accessioned the Coleção de Materiais da Língua Mỹky de Gisela Pauli (isolate; Brazil) consisting of five cassette tape recordings from 1996 of interviews, music, and speeches, in addition to scanned field notes. The donation of the materials was facilitated by former Berkeley linguistics postdoc Bernat Bardagil.
- Zachary O'Hagan and Lev Michael have archived approximately 75 hours of sound recordings of elicitation sessions and other interviews related to Chamikuro (Arawakan; Peru), from two collaborations with Alfonso Patow Chota between June and August 2024 (see bundles 2022-08.015 through 2022-08.064).