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- Title
Diccionario achagua-español español-achagua. Dificultades lingüísticas e incertidumbres reivindicativas.
- Authors
Meléndez, Miguel Ángel
- Abstract
This paper copes with two aspects: first, about ethnic recognition since the Achaguas (an indigenous group from Los Llanos Orientales of Colombia) are undergoing a critical moment as an ethnic community, particularly concerning their language, considered to be in imminent danger of extinction (UNESCO 2009). The second implies a linguistic character, taking into account that the main axis of this work is to stress some problems around the making of this Achagua-Spanish Spanish-Achagua dictionary. Both aspects intertwine given that this dictionary, if it does not become an instrument for the concerned community, will be no more than a testimony which--along with our grammar, oral traditions, and historical works--will be checked by one or another occasional researcher interested in an Arawak-variety language.
- Subjects
ENCYCLOPEDIAS &; dictionaries; ENDANGERED languages; ARAWAK language; ARAWAKAN languages; ACHAGUA language
- Publication
Lenguaje, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 2, p469
- ISSN
0120-3479
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25100/lenguaje.v40i2.4958