Denny Moore is an American linguist, and anthropologist.

He graduated from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, and from the City University of New York

City University of New York

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 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.
He has worked for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and is Coordinator of the Linguistics Division, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem-Para, Brazil.
He published a grammar of Gavião

Gavião

-Portugal:* Gavião Municipality, a municipality in district of Portalegre* Gavião , a civil parish in the municipality of Gavião* Gavião , a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão-Other:* Gavião language...

, a Brazilian Amazonian language.
He is on the advisory board of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology.

Works

• "Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical South America", Language diversity endangered, Editor Matthias Brenzinger, Walter de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4

External links

• "Can You Sleep in a Hammock? And a Few Other Questions that Never Came up in Field Methods Class", Colorado Research in Linguistics, June 2004, Kristine Stenzel
• After the trees: living on the Transamazon Highway, Douglas Ian Stewart, University of Texas Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-292-77680-7