Fábia Fulni-ô

Fabia holds a degree in Letters from the Federal University of Alagoas (2008), a Masters in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Letters and Linguistics / UFAL (2011) and a PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Letters and Linguistics / UFAL. She has experience in the area of Linguistics, working with the description, analysis and documentation of Brazilian indigenous languages, with special attention to Yaathe (Fulni-ô), which is the  language spoken by the Fulni-ô indigenous group to which she belongs. She is currently an Assistant Professor I at UFAL – Campus do Sertão. In the field of Linguistics, her main interest is for studies in Phonology and Morphology, with the objective of applying the knowledge acquired in the systematization of a revised orthography for Yaathe, which can be used in teaching the language in the village schools.