Dear friends,
I am linguist, working in a major Brazilian university (UNICAMP), and I have
worked with and researched the language of the indigenous people Kaingang
more than 30 years. On behalf of a group of teachers, who are native
speakers of Kaingang (one of the six indigenous languages of Brazil with the
largest number of speakers) would like to request the creation of a
Wikipedia in that language. The objectives are: (i) enlarge the democratic
character of the web, which the Wikipedia is a model, (ii) give greater
visibility to minority languages, and (iii) strengthen the Kaingang
language, (iv) encourage the emergence of indigenous writers.
I appreciate that you could help us in this endeavor to succeed.
Next week we met (myself, with three volunteers students with about 20
Kaingang teachers, in the largest Indian reservation of them, called
Guarita, to give way to questions related to this proposal).
I await your comments.
Regards.
Wilmar da Rocha D'Angelis
www.portalkaingang.org