NiceMapudungun: Current Products

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Nice/Mapudungun Current Products

• Writing conventions (Grafemario)
• Vocabulary Mapudungun/Spanish (8,715)
• Bilingual newspaper, 4 numbers (19,647)
• Ultimas Familias memoirs- (25,289)
• Memorias de Pascual Coña (76,311)
• 6 hours transcribed
• 40 hours recorded

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LTI/IEI Agreement Highlights

• Academic cooperation on the development of
  nice/Mapudungun. IEI brings into the project
  socio-linguistic knowledge as well as
  multicultural bilingual education experiences

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LTI/IEI Agreement Highlights

• The use of IEI facilities, faculty/researchers
  and staff for the project.

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LTI/IEI Agreement Highlights

• IEI/UFRO brings electronic network support and
  computer technical support for the project

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LTI/IEI Agreement Highlights

• Cooperate in expand the project to convergent
  areas, such as bilingual education, as well as in
  pursuing additional funding

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LTI/IEI Agreement Highlights

• Cooperate in expand the project to convergent
  areas, such as bilingual education, as well as in
  pursuing additional funding

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MINEDUC/IEIAgreement Highlights

• Introduction
• Based on the LTI/IEI agreement, both institutions
  got the Chilean Ministry of Education involved in
  funding the data collection and processing team
  for the year 2001. This agreement will be renewed
  each year, as needed.

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MINEDUC/IEI Agreement

• Objectives
• To evaluate the NICE/Mapudungun writing
  conventions proposal
• To collect an oral corpus that represent the four
  Mapudungun dialects spoken in Chile. The main
  domain is primary health, traditional and
  Occidental

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MINEDUC/IEI Agreement

• Products
• An oral corpus of 800 hours recorded,
  proportional to the demography of each current
  spoken dialect
• 120 hours transcribed and translated from
  Mapudungun to Spanish
• A refined proposal for writing Mapudungun