Henri Ramirez is a French-Brazilian linguist known especially for his research on

Arawakan languages Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Bran ...

and other language families of the Amazonian region. He is currently a professor at the

Federal University of Rondônia The Federal University of Rondônia ( pt, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, UNIR) is located in the state of Rondônia, in Brazil. It is the only public university in Rondônia. Campuses The Federal University of Rondônia has 8 campuses locat ...

Guajará-Mirim Guajará-Mirim is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. It is located at an altitude of 128 meters. Its population was 46,556 (2020) and its area is 24,856 km².IBGE /ref> Location Guajará-Mirim lies along the Mamoré River, j ...

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 École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in 1977.Denny Moore, "Henry Ramirez–Linguist in Amazonia," International Journal of American Linguistics 75, no. 3 (July 2009): 433-433. Afterwards, he obtained a Bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degree at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...

. He has lived among the Yanomami people for years and documented their language in various dissertations and monographs.

Selected works

Monographs

Ramirez mainly publishes monographs. One of his best-known books is ''Línguas Arawak da Amazônia Setentrional: Comparação e Descrição'' (2001). Others include:Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú
/ref> *'' 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)

References

External links

Biblioteca Digital Curt NimuendajúGoogle Scholar
Living people Linguists of Arawakan languages Linguists from Brazil University of Provence alumni Linguists of indigenous languages of South America Historical linguists Ethnobiologists Year of birth missing (living people) {{linguist-stub