Contextualizing Yukpa language and myths. The linguistic and ethnological position of an outsider in the Cariban language family and the northern Andean lowlands

这个项目的重点是Yukpa人，这是一个说加勒比语的人，他们生活在哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉边境地区的Sierra de perij<e:1>两侧。他们的语言，也被称为Yukpa，在不同的亚群中显示出显著的方言变化。由于他们的地理位置，与其他说加勒比语的人隔绝，但与另外两个语系接近，Yukpa人和他们的语言在语言和社会文化上都是外人。Yukpa的近邻群体是说奇布坎语和阿拉瓦克语的，而所有其他说加勒比语的群体都位于地理距离很远的地方。没有系统的研究处理Yukpa的地位，无论是在语言上还是在社会文化上。本项目旨在通过处理（转录、注释和翻译）和分析Yukpa创造神话，扩大我们对Yukpa结构及其语言、神话和社会宇宙学的了解。具体而言，该项目旨在通过结合人类学和语言学分析来理解，区分并可能修改Yukpa及其语言的地位，以超越各自的视角。为此目的，将从三个不同的角度进行语言和民族学分析：(1)关于各Yukpa亚群之间的差异，(2)在加勒比语系的水平上，(3)关于邻近的其他语言群体。研究结果将填补关于玉巴的现有研究空白。该项目的贡献有：(1)考虑到各个子群体之间的差异，对Yukpa的民族语言文献和创造神话进行分析；(2)对Yukpa作为加勒比语系的一部分以及与邻近语系的关系进行语言分析；(3)在加勒比语和区域环境的背景下对Yukpa的神话和宇宙学进行民族学分析。

This project focuses on the Yukpa, a Cariban-speaking people who live at the Colombian-Venezuelan border area on both sides of the Sierra de Perijá. Their language, also called Yukpa, shows significant dialectal variations in the various subgroups. Due to their location, isolated from other Cariban-speakers but close to two other language families, the Yukpa and their language are outsiders, linguistically as well as socio-culturally. The immediate neighboring groups of the Yukpa are Chibchan- and Arawakan-speakers, while all other Cariban-speaking groups are located in great geographical distance. There are no systematic studies that deal with the position of (the) Yukpa, neither linguistically nor socio-culturally. This project aims to expand our knowledge about the structure of the Yukpa and their language, mythology and socio-cosmology by processing (transcription, glossing, and translation) and analyzing Yukpa creation myths. Specifically, the project aims to understand, differentiate, and possibly revise the status of the Yukpa and their language by combining anthropological and linguistic analysis in order to transcend beyond their respective perspectives. For this purpose, the linguistic and ethnological analysis will be executed from three different angles: (1) pertaining to the variation between the various Yukpa subgroups, (2) at the level of the Cariban language family and (3) with respect to the other language groups in the immediate vicinity. The results will fill existing research gaps about (the) Yukpa. The project contributes (1) to the ethno-linguistic documentation and analysis of the creation myths of the Yukpa, taking variation between the individual subgroups into account, (2) to the linguistic analysis of Yukpa as part of the Cariban language family as well as in relation to adjacent languages families and (3) to the ethnological analysis of mythology and cosmology of the Yukpa in the context of the Cariban-speakers and the regional environment.