Category: ELDP Project Highlight
Documentation of Ososo language and Ovbiko maiden initiation rite
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP Grantee and ELAR Depositor Agnes Legbeti discusses her project ‘Documentation of Ósósọ̀ language and Ovbiko Maiden Initiation Rite‘. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork. I am doing my fieldwork in Ósósọ̀, a village with a temperate climate, majestic scenic sites, and beautiful rocks among which is […]
Teaavagaraga na Jowi go Marina ‘Jowi and Marina’s Wedding’: Producing a documentary as a community output
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP Grantee and ELAR Depositor Catriona Malau shares her insights on the traditional wedding practices she witnessed working on her project ‘Documentation of Ifira-Mele, a Polynesian Outlier of Vanuatu‘ and the process of making a documentary. In July 2019, my family and I arrived in Imere, a large Polynesian village […]
Gija Dictionary Launch
Today on the ELAR Blog, Frances Kofod shares some news about the Gija Dictionary Launch event in May 2023. This work grew in part from her ELDP Major Documentation Project (2009-2012). The materials collected during the project are available in the ELAR collection ‘The Painter’s Eye, The Painter’s Voice, Language Art and Landscape in the […]
ELDP Project Highlight: Karolina Grzech
Today on the ELAR Blog, Karolina Grzech shares some highlights from her ELDP project. The materials collected during the project are available in the ELAR collections ‘Endangered oral traditions of Kichwa-speaking Ecuador: collaborative documentation of Chibuleo Kichwa‘ and ‘Upper Napo Kichwa: documentation of language and culture‘. Impact on community/speakers highlight For the Chibuleo Kichwa speech […]
Giving back what is yours
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Simon Devylder writes about ‘Giving back what is yours’: the completion of the Black Sand Stories project with the publication of a book on the vanishing art of Vanuatu Sand Drawing. Explore the materials deposited by Simon in his ELAR collection ‘Black sand stories: […]
ELDP Project Highlight: Remote documentation training for speakers of Kam (Nyingwom), a language of Taraba State, Nigeria
Today on the ELAR blog, we will showcase some highlights from Jakob Lesage’s ELDP project resulting in the ELAR collection Documention of Kam: Natural interaction, multimodality, and community-driven ethnographic documentation. By Jakob Lesage Our documentation project on Kam started in the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic restricted travel and made remote collaboration the only viable option […]
Project Highlight: Waima/Roro Dictionary
Today on the ELAR blog we will showcase some highlights from Colleen Hattersley’s ELDP project which resulted in the ELAR collection Waima/Roro Dictionary Phase 2. When French scholars arrived on Yule Island in 1885, they started noting features of the local language. While the long-term goal was evangelisation of the population, the immediate task was […]
Project Highlight: Documentation of Hawaii Sign Language: Building the Foundation for Documentation, Conservation, and Revitalization of Endangered Pacific Island Sign Languages
This week on the ELAR blog, James Woodward shares a highlight from his ELDP project. Woody is researching Hawai`i Sign Language. On the first HSL teaching materials: This project is currently producing the first Hawai`i Sign Language (HSL) to English dictionary and the first English to HSL dictionary and the first set of teaching materials […]
ELDP Project Highlight: Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and its Cultural Traditions
Today on the ELAR blog, we are featuring ELDP grantee Xuan Guan’s project ‘Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and its Cultural Traditions‘. Queyu is an understudied and underdocumented Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Queyu belongs to the Qiangic branch, with approximately 6,000~7,000 speaker population. Xuan’s ELAR collection ‘Documentation of Queyu (Choyo) and […]
ELDP Project Highlight: Matukar Panau
Today on the ELAR blog, we are featuring ELDP grantee Danielle Barth’s project ‘Matukar Panau‘. Matukar Panau is a highly endangered Oceanic language spoken near Madang, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Although most children are no longer learning Matukar Panau, current speakers (approx. 300) form a vibrant community of multilingual speakers in dense social networks. As an […]