A description and documentation of Avatime
  
      The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
            The purpose of this project is to describe and document Avatime. Avatime is an underdescribed and undocumented language spoken in the Volta region of Ghana. The language is threatened by the regional language Ewe, which is used in all domains except at home. We plan to gather audio and video recordings of different genres, out of which we will annotate at least four hours in detail. Other outcomes of our project will be a multilingual Avatime-Ewe-English wordlist, grammar notes and two MPhil theses on Avatime space, event representation and/or categorisation.
Primary investigator: Saskia Van Putten
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Ghana,               Western Africa,               Africa
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £8,388.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2004
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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