{"id":145,"date":"2022-10-26T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-benson-at-100\/?post_type=podcast&p=145"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:30:01","slug":"episode-7-an-audio-journey-through-the-archive-of-the-indigenous-languages-of-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-benson-at-100\/podcast\/episode-7-an-audio-journey-through-the-archive-of-the-indigenous-languages-of-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 7: An Audio Journey through the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this episode, Daniel Arbino talks to Susan Kung and Ryan Sullivant\u2014managers, archivists, and curators of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin.\u00a0How did this archive originate and what are its goals? Listen to native Indigenous speakers tell stories and share the languages of their communities.\u00a0Escuchar en espa\u00f1ol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages in Order of Presentation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To view, transmit, or download the multimedia archives linked below, <\/strong>you will need to create a free AILLA account here:\u00a0https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/user\/register<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleeping Languages<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cacaopera audio from the Mesoamerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyle Campbell elicits vocabulary from Pascual Cort\u00e9s, a \u201csemi-speaker\u201d of Cacaopera in El Salvador in 1973. Presuming Cort\u00e9s is one of the \u201ctwo men [who] knew more than a few words\u201d mentioned in Campbell (1975), then Cort\u00e9s learned the Cacaopera he knew from a grandparent who spoke the language fluently. Audio quality is poor, with abrupt changes in tape speed every time Campbell started and stopped the recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A124470<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A126888<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:147168<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y\u00e1mana audio from the Chilean Languages Collection of Oscar Aguilera and Jos\u00e9 Tonko<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisters Cristina Calder\u00f3n and \u00darsula Calder\u00f3n provide short elicited sentences in Y\u00e1mana (Yag\u00e1n) to help with \u00d3scar Aguilera\u2019s study of their language\u2019s grammar. The phrases that are heard are Kyat lampi\u00e1 (\u2018the cat is black\u2019), Kyat paf lampi\u00e1 (\u2018the cat isn\u2019t black), Ya\u0161\u00e1la lampi\u00e1 (\u2018the dog is black\u2019), and Ya\u0161\u00e1la paf lampi\u00e1 (\u2018the dog isn\u2019t black). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124482<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:129417<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:166958<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:166960<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:166986<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:166988<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that the majority of the Y\u00e1mana-language materials are restricted. Two public resources are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words and Phrases https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:129416<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sentences https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:129417<\/a> (also listed above). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristina Calder\u00f3n obituaries:<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El adi\u00f3s a Cristina Calder\u00f3n, pobladora yag\u00e1n de Tierra del Fuego. P\u00e1gina 12. https:\/\/www.pagina12.com.ar\/415851-el-adios-a-cristina-calderon-pobladora-yagan-de-tierra-del-f<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristina Calder\u00f3n, champion of the Yaghan people and the last native speaker of their language \u2013 obituary. Telegraph. https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/obituaries\/2022\/02\/22\/cristina-calderon-champion-yaghan-people-last-native-speaker\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cholon audio from the Cholon Language Collection of Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greetings in the Chol\u00f3n language, spoken by Martha P\u00e9rez Valderrama, using some written records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:283752<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:283774<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:283775<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whistled Languages<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinantec Whistling from the Sochi\u00e1pam Chinantec Whistled Speech Collection of Mark Sicoli<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man whistles to another about plans to work on the coffee patch. He then repeats what he said in Spanish and Chinantec.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:242622<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:242868<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:242872<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A portion of the Sochi\u00e1pam Chinantec whistled speech recorded in this collection appears in  Whistles in the Mist,<\/a> an episode of the television program In the Americas with David Yetman<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tepehua Whistling from the Huehuetla Tepehua Language Documentation Collection of Susan Kung<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicol\u00e1s Vigueras Patricio explains and demonstrates Tepehua whistled speech for two researchers, Susan Smythe Kung and Mark Sicoli. No other Tepehua speakers were present to participate in the demonstration.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124437<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:127223<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:148107<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nahuatl Whistling from the Nahuatl Collection of Jane Hill and Kenneth Hill<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hills elicit a list of common names and phrases from Rolando Zapeda Serrano in Central Nahuatl (Mexicano) and the surrogate whistled speech.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124405<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:127622<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:156004<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tseltal Whistling form the Tzeltal Collection of Brian Stross<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this audio letter from Brian Stross to his dissertation supervisor, Brent Berlin, Stross demonstrates several Tseltal whistled phrases that he learned during his time living in Tenejapa, a Tseltal community in Mexico.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124505<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A276403<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:276405<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isthmus Zapotec Whistling from the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of MesoAmerica<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this series of five audio tracks, Marilyn Feke Manley elicits whistled nicknames and phrases used among friends in Isthmus Zapotec (or Juchit\u00e1n) from Rosalino Gallegos Luis. No other Isthmus Zapotec speakers were present to participate in the demonstration.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124491<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource:  https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A136793<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:230052<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:230054<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:230056<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:230058<\/a>, https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:230060<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous-led Research Collections<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u2019ichee\u2019 audio from the Oxlajuuj Keej Maya\u2019 Ajtz\u2019iib\u2019 Mayan Languages Collection<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jokes and other topics. Telma Can Pixabaj (researcher and native speaker) elicits jokes from Miguel Paulino Can Yac (another native speaker) in K\u2019iche\u2019 as part of the OKMA project to document the Mayan languages of Guatemala.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:124456<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:130534<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:181644<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chol audio from the Chol Collection of Juan Jes\u00fas V\u00e1squez \u00c1lvarez and Jessica Coon <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farms. Marcelina L\u00f3pez (native speaker) and Juan Jes\u00fas V\u00e1squez \u00c1lvarez (interviewer, recorder, native speaker). Sabanilla, Chiapas, Mexico. 2007. Beginning of a conversation between researcher V\u00e1squez and L\u00f3pez that will eventually focus on characteristics of farms in L\u00f3pez\u2019s village. This conversation took place at night, as shown by the crickets that can be heard in the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A261383<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A262039<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:262042<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:262041<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annotation: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:262040<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Award-Winning Collections<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chol Collection of Juan Jes\u00fas V\u00e1squez \u00c1lvarez and Jessica Coon<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the link above in Indigenous-led Research Collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guna audio from the Kuna Collection of Joel Sherzer <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agouti Story (spoken). Muristo P\u00e9rez (speaker) and Joel Sherzer (researcher). Mulatuppu, Panama. 1970. Beginning of a story of the trickster Agouti who repeatedly tricks Jaguar. Joel Sherzer introduces the story in English.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A124436<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A125221<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla:140739<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article by Sherzer about the Agouti story (with transcription and translation) in English: https:\/\/ailla.utexas.org\/islandora\/object\/ailla%3A140740<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Links<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AILLA static pages<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n