Language Endangerment and Language Vitality in the Brazilian Amazon: the Experience of the Tuparí and Other Native Peoples of the Rio Branco Indigenous Territory

When? Wednesday, October 13 from 5 to 6:30 PM.Language of the event: English.Organizers: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.Platform: Zoom, link to registrationSpeaker Adam Singerman received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2018. His thesis and subsequent research has focused on the grammar of Tuparí, an indigenous language spoken by between 350 and 400 people in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He is currently a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard. Once it is possible to resume in situ fieldwork in Rondônia, he intends to investigate the history of multilingual contact between the Tuparí and the neighboring peoples of southern Rondônia. #Brazil #Languages