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Henri Ramirez

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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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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)
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