Henri Ramirez is a French-Brazilian linguist known especially for his research on Arawakan languages and other language families of the Amazonian region. He is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rondônia, Guajará-Mirim.
Education Born in Algeria (then part of France), Ramirez graduated with a master's degree in Engineering from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1977.Denny Moore, "Henry Ramirez–Linguist in Amazonia," International Journal of American Linguistics 75, no. 3 (July 2009): 433-433. Afterwards, he obtained a Bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degree at the University of Provence.Henri Ramirez. Lattes. Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações. He has lived among the Yanomami people for years and documented their language in various dissertations and monographs.Ramirez, Henri. Selected vocabulary (fauna, flora, basic lexicon) of 350 languages of Lowland South America. Goeldi Museum.
Selected works Monographs Ramirez mainly publishes monographs. One of his best-known books is Línguas Arawak da Amazônia Setentrional: Comparação e Descrição (2001). Others include:Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú
Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados (2020) A Língua dos Hupd'äh do Alto Rio Negro: dicionário e guia de conversação (2006) As línguas indígenas do Alto Madeira: estatuto atual e bibliografia básica (2006) Dicionário da Língua Baniwa (2001) A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa (1997) Le Bahuana: une nouvelle langue de la famille arawak (1992)
Articles Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro (Ramirez, Vegini & França 2015) O warázu do Guaporé (tupi-guarani): primeira descrição linguística (Ramirez, Vegini & França 2017)
Dissertations Le Parler Yanomamɨ des Xamatauteri (1994) Une nouvelle langue de la famille Arawak (1992) Aspects de la morpho-syntaxe du Yanomamɨ (1991)
References
External links Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú Google Scholar