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Task: N/A
Release Date: 9/15/2026
Format: WAV, TextGrid, MD, CSV
Size: 65.10 MB
This collection contains 150 isolated Kakataibo lexical items recorded and segmented for phonetic analysis. Each word has its own short WAV file and corresponding Praat TextGrid. It is the Kakataibo version of the same questionnaire used for the Aymara (collection 17) and Awajún (collection 18) materials. Together, the three collections form a controlled comparative dataset covering languages from three different language families: Panoan, Aymaran, and Jivaroan. The filenames use two different prefixes (na_ and wa_), which appear to correspond to two speakers or recording sessions. The questionnaire covers basic vocabulary and notably includes several items with precise botanical identifications, such as Cavanillesia umbellata, Genipa americana, and Hura crepitans, making the collection particularly useful for ethnobotanical research. Documentation was carried out by Heriberto Avelino, Roberto Zariquiey, and Jorge Iván Pérez as part of the project Phonetic Documentation of Three Peruvian Languages (PUCP–MPI-EVA).
Licensing
Licencia Chana 2.0 — Licence for Peruvian Indigenous Language Documentation Collections
https://github.com/rzariquiey/licencia-chanaRestrictions/Special Constraints
PERMITTED WITHOUT FURTHER AUTHORISATION
REQUIRES PRIOR WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM THE DONOR
ATTRIBUTION Cite as: Zariquiey, Roberto (donor). Kakataibo: Datos para estudios fonéticos. Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12534/YFTFIR
RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL Speakers retain the right to withdraw their recordings from this collection at any time. This is the principal reason a Creative Commons licence was not used: CC licences are irrevocable and cannot accommodate this commitment.
Contact for authorisations: [email protected]
Forbidden Usage
Note on machine learning: this is not a blanket prohibition on ML research. Evaluating and benchmarking existing models on this data is permitted, and so is non-production academic experimentation, provided the model is not deployed, the weights are not released, and the results cite the collection. What requires authorisation is production training and weight release. The reason is that the consent forms signed before approximately 2020 do not mention AI training and cannot reasonably be read as covering it; the communities have not yet been consulted on this point.
Contact for authorisations: [email protected]
Ethical Review
All recordings in this collection were made with the informed consent of the speakers, obtained in the field at the time of recording. Signed consent forms are held by the donor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and are available to the MDC team on request. Speakers are identified by code (S01, S02...) rather than by name, in file names, in the annotation tiers of the ELAN files, and in all accompanying documentation. Contributors are acknowledged collectively in each collection's documentation, without linking any name to any specific recording or code. A small number of individuals appear under their own names because they asked to be credited as authors of the material; this is stated explicitly in the documentation of the collections concerned. Material judged sensitive was withheld from deposit entirely rather than published under restriction. Collections involving funerary practice, medicinal knowledge, ritual knowledge, or extended life histories of identifiable individuals are published under restricted access with individual review of each request. One point remains open and is declared here rather than glossed over: the consent forms signed before approximately 2020 do not mention the use of recordings for training artificial intelligence models. They cannot reasonably be read as covering it. The communities have not yet been consulted on this specific question. Until that consultation takes place, production model training is not authorised, and the licence reflects this.
Intended Use
Isolated lexical items with hand-checked Praat segmentation, part of a controlled three-language comparative set with Aymara and Awajún. Includes items with precise botanical identification, making the list usable for ethnobotanical as well as phonetic work. Intended also as a clean evaluation starting point for a Panoan language.
