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LIVING TONGUES
ASSOCIATES
Anna Luisa Daigneault
Latin America Projects Coordinator 2009-
Development Officer 2011-
Jeremy
Fahringer
Enduring Voices Project Manager 2009-
Information Technology Specialist
Language Hotspots Project
Talking Dictionaries Project
Opino
Gomango
Sora Language Project 2007-
Local Project Coordinator/Field Researcher-Remo
project 2010-
Local Project Coordinator/Field Researcher-Gta’
project 2010-
Dr.
Ganesh Murmu
Koro Documentation Project 2008-
Munda Languages Project 2007-
Anna
Luisa Daigneault Latin America Projects Coordinator 2009-
Development Officer 2011-
Anna Luisa
Daigneault is Latin America Projects
Coordinator and Development Officer at
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered
Languages. Anna Luisa has an M.Sc from
University of Montréal in Linguistic
Anthropology. She has extensive
experience working with indigenous
communities in the Peruvian Amazon
region, in particular the Yanesha, and
among the peoples of Paraguay, in
particular the Chaco region. She is also
an accomplished musician and filmmaker.
Anna Luisa further served as field
coordinator during the initial phase of
the development of Yshyr Chamacoco
Talking Dictionary in 2009.
In
August-September 2011, Living Tongues
Fellow and Project Coordinator Anna
Luisa Daigneault went on a follow-up
trip to South America to connect with
language activists in Chile as well as
Peru. She worked on an ethnographic
archiving project with the Yanesha
people of the Peruvian Amazon, worked
with various speakers of Mapudungun
dialects in Chile, and continued an
ongoing dictionary project collaborating
with Andres Ozuna, Yshyr-Chamacoco
language activist of northern Paraguay.
Download her field report here.
Anna Luisa Daigneault
and Andres Ozuna in Asunción, Paraguay
2009
Anna Luisa Daigneault,
David Harrison, Greg Anderson on road to
Chamacoco
settlement of Puerto Diana, Paraguay
2009. Photo by Alejandro Chaskielberg
Anna Luisa Daigneault,
Greg Anderson, David Harrison
and Paraguayan Minister of Culture Ticio
Escobar, Asunción 2009
Photo by Alejandro Chaiskelberg
David Harrison, Anna
Luisa Daigneault, Greg Anderson work
with
Tsofai, Maka consultant, in Paraguay
2009. Photo by Chris Rainier.
Jeremy Fahringer Enduring Voices Project Manager 2009-
Information Technology Specialist
Language Hotspots Project
Talking Dictionaries Projects
Jeremy Fahringer joined Living Tongues to work on
the Enduring Voices project in January 2009. He is
involved in the development of the Language Hotspots
model second version, talking dictionaries'
development, data archiving, mapping, multimedia,
and field equipment management. He graduated in 2006
from Swarthmore College, where he majored in
Linguistics and Studio Art.
Opino Gomango Sora Language Project 2007-
Local Project Coordinator/Field Researcher-Remo
project 2010-
Local Project Coordinator/Field Researcher-Gta’
project 2010-
Opino
Gomango is a Sora language activist
who began working with Living
Tongues Institute for Endangered
Languages in 2007 to help document
his native Sora language. In 2008 he
initiated the Sora Talking
Dictionary and Online Grammar
Project that continues through the
present day. In 2010 Opino took on
the role of Local Project
Coordinator and Field Researcher for
the State of Orissa for the
Documentation of Remo Project, and
for the Gta’ Talking Dictionary and
Online Grammar Project that are
components of Living Tongues
Institute’s Munda Languages Project.
Opino Gomango (far L),
Gokul Chandra Das, Sania Danghada-Majhi
(Remo consultant), Angara Raspeda (Gta’
consultant), Sukari Danghada-Majhi (Remo
consultant), Parboti Raspeda (Gta’
consultant). Photo taken by Budara
Raspeda in Bondaguda village, Malkangiri
district, Orissa 2011.
Dr.
Ganesh Murmu
Koro Documentation Project 2008-
Munda Languages Project 2007-
Jharkhand Local Project
Coordinator
Dr. Ganesh Murmu works at the Department of Tribal
and Regional Languages, University of Ranchi in
Jharkhand, India. Ganesh is an expert in the tribal
languages of Jharkhand and in particular a tireless
advocate and activist for his native Santali
language. Since 2008, Dr. Murmu has worked with Dr.
Anderson and Dr. Harrison on the Documentation of
Koro Aka Project, on the poorly known Koro Aka
language of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India,
and on three Enduring Voices trips to Arunachal
Pradesh. In addition to Koro Aka, Ganesh served as
primary or secondary eliciting linguist in the
recordings Living Tongues has made of numerous
languages of the region, including Hruso Aka, Miji,
Apatani, Hill Miri and Nishi. Dr. Murmu also serves
as the Local Project Coordinator and liaison for
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages in
Jharkhand State, India.
Dr. Ganesh Murmu
Photo by Chris Rainier
Ganesh Murmu works
with Koro consultants Kachim and
Gujupi
Photo by K. David Harrison
L to R: Khandu
Degio (Hruso consultant) David
Harrison,
Sange Degio (Koro consultant) Ganesh
Murmu, Greg Anderson
