February 20, 2025
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- In the last couple of years, Bernat Bardagil (postdoc 2018-2020) has facilitated the acquisition of three legacy collections of materials related to Mỹky (isolate; Brazil). One of these collections has been accessioned. The two others, from the family of American missionary Robert Meader (1912-1997) and German anthropologist Gisela Pauli, are currently being cataloged. Digital copies of photographs and -- thanks to the quick work of Digital Revolution -- sound recordings are already making their way home. In the photographs below, Mỹky-speaking elders peruse some of Meader's photographs, dating from 1936 forward (top, February 2024), and listen to Pauli's recordings of the late Tapurá, from 1996 (bottom, February 2025).
