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Release Date: 9/15/2026
Format: WAV, MPG, EAF, MD, CSV
Size: 1.54 GB
This collection contains nine Iskonawa recordings from 2013 documenting collective oral traditions and conversations. The materials include narratives about the origin of the Iskonawa people, cremation practices (two versions), the spirit tree, the hualo, the stingy ones, and the peanut paucar, as well as open conversations among several speakers. Unlike the personal narratives, these recordings predominantly involve multi-speaker interaction, with three speakers (S01, S02, and S03) participating together in most recordings, making the collection particularly valuable for the study of interaction and turn-taking. Recordings were made by Roberto Zariquiey Biondi in the Native Communities of Chachibai and Callería and in San José de Yarinacocha, Ucayali, Peru. Transcription, translation, and ELAN processing were also carried out by Roberto Zariquiey Biondi. The research team included Roberto Zariquiey, José Antonio Mazzotti, and Carolina Rodríguez.
Licensing
Licencia Chana 2.0 — Licence for Peruvian Indigenous Language Documentation Collections
https://github.com/rzariquiey/licencia-chanaRestrictions/Special Constraints
This dataset is released under the Licencia Chana 2.0, not under a Creative Commons licence. Download is direct and unrestricted, but use is subject to the following terms.
PERMITTED WITHOUT FURTHER AUTHORISATION
REQUIRES PRIOR WRITTEN AUTHORISATION FROM THE DONOR
This collection has been placed at the most restrictive level because of the nature of its content, not because consent is lacking. All speakers gave their authorisation. The restriction exists because this is material that should circulate with context and accompaniment rather than by open download.
Recommended Traditional Knowledge labels (Local Contexts): TK Community Use Only, TK Non-Commercial, TK Attribution.
ATTRIBUTION Cite as: Zariquiey, Roberto (donor). Iskonawa: Narraciones-Conversaciones. Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12534/4CTKGE
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.
This collection includes accounts of funerary practice, including two versions of the cremation narrative, and oral tradition of ritual value.
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
The central texts of Iskonawa oral tradition, including the origin narrative, together with multi-party conversation. Intended for research on interaction and turn-taking in a critically endangered language, and for preservation with context.
1. Donante — Roberto Zariquiey Biondi, PUCP, [email protected]
2. Lengua — Iskonawa · ISO 639-3 isc · familia pano
3. Otras denominaciones — Isconahua, Iskobakebo
4. Descripción general
Nueve grabaciones de 2013 que reúnen el material de tradición oral colectiva del corpus iskonawa: el relato del origen del pueblo, las prácticas funerarias de cremación (dos versiones), el árbol del espíritu, el hualo, los mezquinos, el paucar del maní, además de conversaciones abiertas entre varios hablantes.
A diferencia de las narrativas personales, aquí predomina la conversación a varias voces:
tres hablantes (S01, S02, S03) intervienen juntas en la mayoría de las grabaciones, lo que las hace
especialmente útiles para el estudio de la interacción y del cambio de turno.
5. Participantes — hablantes identificados con código (S01, S02…); ver la sección
«Participantes y seudonimización» más abajo. Equipo de investigación: Roberto Zariquiey,
José Antonio Mazzotti y Carolina Rodríguez.
6. Grabación — Roberto Zariquiey Biondi. Comunidades nativas de Chachibai y Callería, y San José de Yarinacocha (Ucayali, Perú), 2013 7. Transcripción y traducción — Roberto Zariquiey Biondi 8. Procesamiento en ELAN — Roberto Zariquiey Biondi
9. Citación
Zariquiey, Roberto (donante). Tradición oral y conversaciones iskonawa. Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas. Lima, PUCP.
10. Ortografía
Inventario fonológico del iskonawa y su correspondencia ortográfica.
Consonantes
| Fonema | Grafema | Fonema | Grafema | Fonema | Grafema |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /p/ | ‹p› | /t͡s/ | ‹ts› | /ʃ/ | ‹sh› |
| /t/ | ‹t› | /t͡ʃ/ | ‹ch› | /h/ | ‹h› |
| /k/ | ‹k› | /β/ | ‹b› | /j/ | ‹y› |
| /m/ | ‹m› | /s/ | ‹s› | /w/ | ‹w› |
| /n/ | ‹n› | /ɾ/ | ‹r› |
Vocales
| Fonema | Grafema |
|---|---|
| /i/ | ‹i› |
| /ɨ/ | ‹e› |
| /a/ | ‹a› |
| /ʊ/ | ‹o› |
Nótese que ‹e› representa la vocal central alta /ɨ/ y ‹o› la posterior semicerrada /ʊ/: no tienen el valor que sugiere la ortografía castellana.
9 grabaciones · 1.01 h de audio · video en MPG · 9 archivos ELAN · 1.89 GB
Contiene material sobre prácticas funerarias. ⚠️ Verificar si requiere alguna restricción de acceso antes de publicarlo abiertamente.
Los hablantes aparecen con código, no con nombre, tanto en los nombres de archivo como en los tiers de los ELAN. Códigos usados en esta colección:
S01, S02, S03, S05, S06, S07, S09
Créditos. Esta colección fue posible gracias a la participación de Germán, Isabel, José, Juanita, Nelita, William.
Los nombres se listan como reconocimiento colectivo y no se vinculan a grabaciones ni a códigos concretos.
Nivel 3 — Acceso restringido, autorización caso por caso
| Licencia | Licencia Chana — ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md |
| Acceso en MDC | Gateado, con revisión individual de cada solicitud y justificación del uso previsto |
| Uso académico, docente y de revitalización | Permitido con atribución |
| Uso comercial y entrenamiento de IA | Requieren autorización previa y por escrito |
| Condición adicional | Reconocimiento explícito de la comunidad de origen |
Motivo del nivel 3: trata prácticas funerarias (dos versiones del relato de la cremación) y tradición oral de valor ritual, en conversación colectiva.
Etiquetas recomendadas (Local Contexts): TK Community Use Only, TK Non-Commercial,
TK Attribution.
Consentimiento: ✅ existe autorización de los hablantes (declarado por el donante, agosto de 2026). El nivel 3 aquí no responde a falta de consentimiento, sino a la naturaleza del contenido: es material que conviene que circule con acompañamiento, no en descarga abierta.
Ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md para los términos y 00_LICENCIAS_Y_ACCESO.md para el esquema de acceso.
