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Henri Ramirez

Henri Ramirez is a French-Brazilian linguist known especially for his research on Arawakan languages and other language families of the Amazonian region. He is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rondônia, Guajará-Mirim.

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Henri Ramirez
Born
Algeria
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Provence
ThesisLe Parler Yanomamɨ des Xamatauteri (1994)
Jean Doneux
Academic work
InstitutionsFederal University of Rondônia, Guajará-Mirim
Main interests
Arawakan languages and ethnobiology
Notable works
Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak (2020)

Henri Ramirez is a French-Brazilian linguist known especially for his research on Arawakan languages and other language families of the Amazonian region. He is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rondônia, Guajará-Mirim.

Education

Born in Algeria (then part of France), Ramirez graduated with a master's degree in Engineering from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1977.1 Afterwards, he obtained a Bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degree at the University of Provence.2 He has lived among the Yanomami people for years and documented their language in various dissertations and monographs.3

Selected works

Monographs

Ramirez mainly publishes monographs.1 One of his best-known books is Línguas Arawak da Amazônia Setentrional: Comparação e Descrição (2001). Others include:4

  • Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados (2020)
  • A Língua dos Hupd'äh do Alto Rio Negro: dicionário e guia de conversação (2006)
  • As línguas indígenas do Alto Madeira: estatuto atual e bibliografia básica (2006)
  • Dicionário da Língua Baniwa (2001)
  • A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa (1997)
  • Le Bahuana: une nouvelle langue de la famille arawak (1992)

Articles

  • Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro (Ramirez, Vegini & França 2015)
  • O warázu do Guaporé (tupi-guarani): primeira descrição linguística (Ramirez, Vegini & França 2017)

Dissertations

  • Le Parler Yanomamɨ des Xamatauteri (1994)
  • Une nouvelle langue de la famille Arawak (1992)
  • Aspects de la morpho-syntaxe du Yanomamɨ (1991)
References

References

  1. Denny Moore, "Henry Ramirez–Linguist in Amazonia," International Journal of American Linguistics 75, no. 3 (July 2009): 433-433. doi:10.1086/605419
  2. Henri Ramirez. Lattes. Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações.
  3. Ramirez, Henri. Selected vocabulary (fauna, flora, basic lexicon) of 350 languages of Lowland South America. Goeldi Museum.
  4. Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú
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