Andean Aymara

The writers, Virginia Beavert and Sharon Hargus have authored the dictionary, which comes with over 9000 sound files.  According to the University of Washington Press:
Sahaptin, or Ichishkíin Sínwit (literally, “this language”), is a Plateau Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northern Oregon. This dictionary documents the dialect of Sahaptin that is spoken by the [...]

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David Eberhard has published his Mamaindê grammar with the LOT dissertation series (236).  The abstract can be seen on the LinguistList. An excerpt can be found here.
Cross-posted from Leo Wetzels’  Amazonian Linguistics website.
Incidentally, the TLS has a review of a new collection, published in Gallimard’s Bilbiothèque de la Pléiade, of Lévi-Strauss’s collected works. Wilcken writes:
The Pléiade edition [...]

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In a recent exchange about the death of the last speaker of Bo, Lyle Campbell summarized very well the current status of Amerind languages.
He writes that when the first Europeans arrived, there were some 280 languages or so in the US which could be divided into 51 families (incl. isolates). Currently some 150 survive and [...]

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There is a photo exhibit by Odileiz Cruz, a fellow alumnus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam open until the end of this month at CEDLA (UvA) on Keizersgracht 395-397 in Amsterdam, in which she shows some photos from her fieldwork with this group in Roraima, Brazil.
There are only a few pictures, but it is still [...]

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Today, 17 November, is the 116th anniversary of the American-backed coup d’état of Queen Liliuokalani’s constitutional monarchy which resulted in Hawaii’s US annexation five years later.
See a video here.

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Workshop: Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas
Leiden University, March 25-26 2010
The categories of mood and modality find extremely diverse realizations across languages (e.g.Palmer 2001). Consequently, there is no unanimity which notions these two categories actually comprise. The increasing availability of data on Indigenous American languages makes it now possible to take a fresh [...]

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Had the chance to visit the linguistic department at the University of Utah last February and was really impressed with the impressive faculty, friendly students, and great resources. This is definitely an ideal opportunity for prospective students.
On behalf of Lyle Campbell:

We (Dept of Linguistics, University of Utah) expect to have 2 or 3 Graduate Research [...]

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AILDI’s 30th Anniversary
Meeting Description:
This summer, AILDI is celebrating 30 years of Indigenous language work with a  celebration and symposium. The symposium, held this year from June 29th to July 2nd, will feature presentations, panels and discussions from AILDI participants, as well as from scholars from across the U.S., Mexico and beyond working in communities on language revitalization, [...]

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Every month students and researchers from all of the Netherlands gather at one Dutch university to attend informal presentations of our colleagues and discuss relevant topics in linguistics and language documenation. News of upcoming events (including dates, locations, and abstracts) will be posted on this website and previous material will be archived here. Also, check [...]

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Greetings from Salt Lake City, Utah where just yesterday the CAIL-sponsored Amerind language conference at the University of Utah came to a close. Last Friday I presented a paper regarding some of my work in Muylaque, Sijuaya, and Calacoa which detailed efforts employed by myself in conjunction with Elmer and Edwin Banegas Flores to document [...]

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