I first learned of the existence of the Kallawayas in July 2011 while watching a program on PBS called "The Linguists." http://www.livingtongues.org/aboutus.html Two young men from America travel extensively throughout the world in an attempt to record, and possibly save, endangered languages. They report that there are 7,000 languages in existence in our world today, and that's after losing many others. When these men visited Bolivia, they were searching for the Kallawaya language spoken by a tribe of people known as the Kallawayas. The Kallawayas are healers. The narrators said that the language is primarily one of medicinal, healing, plant, and animal terms, and this fascinated me. Here's an article about the Kallawayas from the World Health Organization.
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Kallawayas: The Nomadic Medicine men of Bolivia
I first learned of the existence of the Kallawayas in July 2011 while watching a program on PBS called "The Linguists." http://www.livingtongues.org/aboutus.html Two young men from America travel extensively throughout the world in an attempt to record, and possibly save, endangered languages. They report that there are 7,000 languages in existence in our world today, and that's after losing many others. When these men visited Bolivia, they were searching for the Kallawaya language spoken by a tribe of people known as the Kallawayas. The Kallawayas are healers. The narrators said that the language is primarily one of medicinal, healing, plant, and animal terms, and this fascinated me. Here's an article about the Kallawayas from the World Health Organization.
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