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Announced on: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
Works-in-Progress: Jens Van Gysel, "Language Shift and Revitalization in Sanapaná," Friday, November 7th, PAC 113, noon Sanapaná is an Indigenous language of Paraguay, spoken by around 1000 people. Over the last 100 years, it has undergone a gradual process of language shift towards Paraguayan Guarani and Spanish: ever more children acquire these two socio-economically dominant languages in the home rather than their ancestral language. In this talk, he will discuss two ways in which this language shift process has influenced the phonetics and phonology of Sanapaná as well as present an ongoing documentation project aiming to result in the first dictionary of the language. For more information on the Humanities Center, please contact Erin Kelly at ekkelly@csuchico.edu.
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