A cross-varietal documentation and description of Pech, a Chibchan language of Honduras

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.

This project will document and describe three varieties of Pech (El Carbón, Las MaràPrimary investigator: Claudine Chamoreau

Project Details

Location: Honduras, Central America, Americas Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): CNRS - Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL), Paris-Villejuif Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £85,610.00 Commencement Date: 01/2009
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