DobeS - Grafiken und Bilder

DobeS-Karte (© Spektrum CP/anneandrea)

Weltkarte mit Sprachen, die im Rahmen der Förderinitiative "Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen" relevant wurden.

Sprachen, die im Rahmen der Förderinitiative "Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen" relevant wurden. (Grafik: Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik in Nijmegen)

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Children speak their mother tongue ≠ Akhoe-Hai // om only within the family. The group is one of the last hunter-gatherer cultures. Researcher Thomas Widlok explains the electronic database to the speakers. (© ≠Akhoe-Hai//om Dobes Team)

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A group of ≠ Akhoe-Hai // om native speakers are watching a video recording. Due to the low status of their native tongue, ≠ Akhoe-Hai / om are forced to switch to the regional lingua franca Oshiwambo, to Afrikaans or, more recently, to English. By documenting their language, the researchers hope not only to save linguistic cultural knowledge, but at the same time to show the specific dynamics of a loss of language that is being forced by marginalization and discrimination (© ≠Akhoe-Hai//om Dobes Team)

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The scientist Katharina Haude documented the language of Movima in the Moxos region in Bolivia. She dealt with, for example, the terms of flora and fauna, but also the Catholic rites in which Movima is spoken preferably. (© Silke Beuse)

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The tribe of the Awetí lies in the area of the source rivers of the Xingú, one of the great inflows of the Amazon. Here are some twelve different Indian tribes settled with a comparable culture, but six completely different languages. The Awetí belongs to one of the largest language families in South America. However, the language has no closer relationship to other languages. (© DOBES-Aweti-Projekt / Rozilda Drude)

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As part of a research network for the documentation of Brazilian Indian languages, the scientist Sebastian Drude dealt with the Awetí. Not only the traditions and myths were documented, but also - against the background of the loss of culture - the everyday life for the coming generations. (© DOBES-Aweti-Projekt / Sebastian Drude)

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