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Acknowledgments
Our greatest thanks go to the speakers of Omagua with whom we have collaborated in the documentation
and description of their language: Lazarina Cabudivo Tuisima, Manuel Cabudivo Tuisima
(†2010), Amelia Huanaquiri Tuisima, Arnaldo Huanaquiri Tuisima, Alicia Huanío Cabudivo, and
Lino Huanío Cabudivo. We owe an important debt to Catherine Clark and Edinson Huamancayo,
who carried out exploratory fieldwork in 2003 and 2004, respectively, under the direction of Lev
Michael and Christine Beier, with funding from Cabeceras Aid Project. We also thank our colleagues
in the ongoing documentation and description of Omagua: Clare Sandy, Tammy Stark and
Vivian Wauters. The current phase of the Omagua documentation project began in 2009 with the
digitization, parsing and grammatical analysis of an ∼100,000-word text corpus, in which Marc
Januta and Teresa McFarland also played essential roles. Field-based documentation was carried
out in 2010 and 2011 with funding from the National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered
Languages program (award #0966499 Collaborative Research: Kokama-Kokamilla (cod) and
Omagua (omg): Documentation, Description and (Non-)Genetic Relationships). We also wish to
thank our colleagues in the ongoing Comparative Tupí-Guaraní Project at the University of California,
Berkeley, whose work has provided important insights into the linguistic history of Omagua:
Keith Bartolomei, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Michael Roberts and Vivian Wauters. Finally, we
wish to thank Rosa Vallejos Yopán, whose work on Kokama-Kokamilla, Omagua’s sister language,
has been critical for interpreting key aspects of the Old Omagua materials we discuss in this work.
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