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Yanomami is not what the Yanomami call themselves and is instead a word in their language meaning "man" or "human being". The American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon adopted this term with the transcription Ya̧nomamö to use as an exonym to refer to the culture and, by extension, the people. The word is pronounced with nasalisation of all the ...
Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
It serves grades K-12 in Keaʻau, Puna, Hawaii Island, Hawaii. It is the largest Hawaiian immersion school on Hawaii Island. [2] The school began as a Hawaii Department of Education program in 1987. The program became an independent school in 1994, and moved to its current home in Puna shortly thereafter. It was established as a charter school ...
Based on the practices of 19th-century Hawaiian-language schools, as well as the Māori language revival kindergartens in New Zealand, the Pūnana Leo was the first indigenous language immersion preschool project in the United States. Graduates from the Pūnana Leo schools have achieved several measures of academic success in later life.
Waiká, also Yanomám (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami), [2] is one of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people in Brazil. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages. The names Waika (Guaica) and Yanomami are shared with the Yanomamö language.
Jacques Lizot (11 February 1938 – 22 June 2022 [1]) was a French anthropologist and linguist.He lived among the Yanomami people in Venezuela for over 20 years, documenting their culture and language.
Niihau School of Kekaha (NSK, Hawaiian: Hale Kula Niihau o Kekaha), also known as Ke Kula Niihau O Kekaha Learning Center (KKNOK), is a K-12 charter school in Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii, United States, catering to Niihau people living on
Yãnoma is a Yanomaman language spoken by one of the Yanomami peoples in the southernmost part of Roraima state, Brazil. It was first reported in Ferreira et al. (2019). Yãnoma is spoken in the lower Catrimani River valley and in the community of Rasasi near Catrimani Mission by an estimated total of 178