Category: Project Profiles
Project Profile: Documentation of Uruangnirin
Today on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Eline Visser presents her project ‘Documentation of Uruangnirin’. You can find out more about Eline’s project and explore the corresponding ELAR collection here. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork My field site is the Karas Islands. This is a […]
Project profile: Documenting endangered languages of the Bazou subdivision in Cameroon
Today on the ELAR Blog, ELDP Grantee and ELAR Depositor Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba describes her experiences documenting three endangered languages of the Bazou subdivision in Cameroon. Explore Rachel’s ELAR collection here. Please tell us a bit about where you are doing your fieldwork I am doing fieldwork in Cameroon, precisely in Bazou. Bazou is […]
Documentation of Oubi
This week on the ELAR Blog, wildlife veterinarian Jenny Jaffe writes about documenting Oubi in Côte d’Ivoire while researching chimpanzees in the rainforest of Tai National Park. You can access the resulting ELAR collection here. By Jenny Jaffe As a wildlife veterinarian, I have worked in all kinds of places where the wildlife is not […]
Project Profile: Zapal, an oral literature genre of the Bunaq Lamaknen
Today on the ELAR blog, Antoinette Schapper discusses her project ‘Documenting Zapal among the Bunaq people of Lamaknen in West Timor, Indonesia‘. Antoinette received an ELDP small grant at the University of Cologne. Background Bunaq is a Papuan language spoken in central Timor, straddling the border between independent Timor-Leste and Indonesian West Timor. The Bunaq […]
On sociolinguistic fragility, language vitality, and changing patterns of multilingualism: The linguistic landscape of Babuyan Claro
This week on the ELAR Blog, ELDP Grantee Kristina Gallego writes about the linguistic landscape of Babuyan Claro. Kristina’s ELAR Collection ‘Consequences of contact: Documenting Ibatan within the multilingual landscape of Babuyan Claro’ can be accessed here. By Kristina Gallego Babuyan Claro is an island community in the far north of the Philippines, and it is […]
ELDP Project Profile: Grammar of Minyag, a minority language of Western Sichuan
This week on the ELAR blog, ELPD grantee Agnes Conrad tells us about her project ‘Grammar of Minyag, a minority language of Western Sichuan‘. Can you give us some background on the language ecology in your area? Minyag (mvm) is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by somewhere around 10,000 people living in the vicinity of […]
ELDP Project Profile: Documenting Ahamb, a Small Island Language of Vanuatu
Today on the ELAR blog, Tihomir Rangelov is writing about his current ELDP project documenting the Ahamb language in Vanuatu. Can you give us some background on the language ecology in your area? Ahamb is one of around thirty languages spoken on Malakula and its offshore islands. With a population of around 25,000, Malakula is […]
Project Profile: Amailon: the ritual language of the Nupa Maibi
Today on the ELAR blog, Karen Parker discusses her project documenting the Amailon variety of Meitei, a liturgical genre spoken by the Maibi (also spelled Amaibi). This language is spoken by gender-diverse shamanic priestesses of the Sanamahi tradition in Manipur state, Northeast India. Karen is a 2016 ELDP grantee from La Trobe University in Melbourne, […]
Wang Dehe, Taking Documentation Further
Today on the ELAR blog Katia Chirkova introduces Wang Dehe (王德和) a speaker of the Ersu language and language activist and her close collaborator on her ELDP documentation project. Since 2017 Wang Dehe is a 2017 ELDP grantee himself and the winner of the 2018 Linguistic Society of America‘s (LSA) Excellence in Community Linguistics Award, an award […]
Project Profile: Simon Tabuni on Western Lani
Today on the ELAR Blog, new SOAS MA Language Documentation and Description student Simon Tabuni is talking about his prior work at the Center for Endangered Languages Documentation (CELD) in Manokwari on the Western Lani language. Can you give us some background on the language ecology in your area? According to SIL, there are “more than 250 languages in […]