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Task: N/A
Release Date: 9/15/2026
Format: WAV, MPG, EAF, MD, CSV
Size: 1.64 GB
This collection contains eighteen autobiographical and descriptive Iskonawa narratives recorded in 2013, constituting the largest portion of the annotated Iskonawa corpus. Speakers discuss their lives and youth, work in the chacra, the preparation of chicha, celebrations, traditional clothing, life in San Miguel, mining, hammocks, and their expectations for the future. The collection is particularly valuable for the study of spontaneous discourse, as it consists of extended, fluent monologues with time-aligned transcription, normalized text, and Spanish translation in ELAN. 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
ACCESS IS GRANTED ON REQUEST. Requesters must identify themselves and state their institutional affiliation. The donor reviews and approves or declines each request individually.
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
ATTRIBUTION Cite as: Zariquiey, Roberto (donor). Iskonawa: Personal Narratives. Mozilla Data Collective.
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
The largest body of connected spontaneous discourse that exists for Iskonawa, a critically endangered language. Intended for research on discourse and information structure, and as historical and testimonial record of a recently contacted and displaced people.
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
Dieciocho narraciones autobiográficas y descriptivas grabadas en 2013, la parte más extensa del corpus iskonawa anotado. Las hablantes cuentan su vida, su juventud, el trabajo en la chacra, la preparación de la chicha, las fiestas, la vestimenta tradicional, la vida en San Miguel, el trabajo en la mina, la hamaca, y sus expectativas de futuro.
Es el mejor material de la colección para estudios de discurso espontáneo: son monólogos largos, fluidos, con transcripción, texto normalizado y traducción al castellano alineados en ELAN.
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). Narrativas personales 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.
18 grabaciones · 1.25 h de audio · video en MPG · 18 archivos ELAN · 1.91 GB
| Hablante | Narraciones |
|---|---|
S02 | chacra, chicha, fiestas, futuro, juventud, San Miguel, vestimenta, vida |
S03 | hamaca, mina, vestimenta, vida, vida 2 |
S01 | la muchacha, historia de vida, vida y trabajo (con S02) |
| colectiva | narración de la chacra (S01, S02, S03, S06) |
⚠️ Un ELAN quedó sin media asociado (isc_narrp_doc_narracion-vestimenta.eaf). Revisar si el
audio existe en otra carpeta.
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, S08
Créditos. Esta colección fue posible gracias a la participación de Isabel, Jaime, Juanita, Nelita, William.
Los nombres se listan como reconocimiento colectivo y no se vinculan a grabaciones ni a códigos concretos.
Nivel 2 — Acceso previa solicitud
| Licencia | Licencia Chana — ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md |
| Acceso en MDC | Gateado: quien descarga debe solicitar acceso e identificarse; el donante aprueba o rechaza cada solicitud |
| Uso académico, docente y de revitalización | Permitido con atribución |
| Uso comercial | Requiere autorización previa y por escrito |
| Entrenamiento de modelos de IA | Requiere autorización expresa y por escrito (cláusula 5) |
La Licencia Chana permite sin trámite la investigación, la docencia y la revitalización lingüística. El uso comercial y el entrenamiento de modelos requieren autorización escrita.
Etiquetas recomendadas (Local Contexts): TK Attribution, TK Verified.
Consentimiento: ✅ todas las grabaciones de esta colección cuentan con autorización de los hablantes (declarado por el donante, agosto de 2026). Conservar los formularios firmados junto al depósito y declararlos en el datasheet de MDC.
Ver LICENCIA_CHANA.md para los términos y 00_LICENCIAS_Y_ACCESO.md para el esquema de acceso.
