Month: June 2017
A Day in the Field: Azeb Amha
Today on the ELAR blog, depositor and ELDP grantee Azeb Amha gives readers some insight into the daily routine of her documentation project, documentation of house construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language. 1. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. My fieldwork is based in ɗimalle […]
Community Member Bio: Nelita Cristobal
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee Alexandro Garcia Laguia interviews Nelita Cristobal, an Alta speaker who is working with him to document the Northern Alta language in the Phillipines. Thank you to Alexandro and Nelita for providing this interview! 1. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your language? My name is Nelita […]
Elan/Praat Machine Segmenting
Today on the ELAR blog, Eri Kashima shares her tried and true segmenting shortcuts for depositors working with ELAN and Praat. Read on for a step-by-step walkthrough of her process: My number one hated stage in transcription work is segmenting. I would sit there fuming while manually segmenting the recordings I made before I could even […]
Project Profile: Documenting Ramari Hatohobei, the Tobian language, a severely endangered Micronesian language
Today on the ELAR blog, Peter and Bobby Black discuss their project documenting Tobian. Tobian (Ramari Hatohobei) is the language of Tobi, one of the Southwest Islands of the Republic of Palau, a Micronesian nation in the western Pacific. Severely endangered, Tobian is currently spoken by approximately 150 people. Tobian and the dialects of Sonsorol, […]
ELAR & Chouette Films Video Installation: Eegimaa: plants, rituals & rice farming
Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the LAST short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ELAR deposit Documentation of Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Basse-Casamance – Southern Senegal) deposited by ELDP grantee Serge Sagna. Thank you to Anna, Remy, Serge, and the […]
ELAR & Chouette Films Video Installation: Eastern Khanty
Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ELAR deposit primary data of Vasyugan and Aleksandrovo dialects of Eastern Khanty deposited by ELDP grantee Andrey Filchenko. Vasyugan river dialect becomes […]