A Documentation of the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect cluster of Gargarnaye
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 aims at documenting a highly endangered dialectal cluster of Neo-Aramaic called Gargarnaye spoken originally in several villages in south-eastern Turkey by Assyrian Christians and encompassing at present around 30 families. The focus of the documentation will be on linguistic variation within the cluster on the one hand, and on the characteristic features of the dialect among the Christian Neo-Aramaic varieties on the other. The resulting collection of media will include also the extra-linguistic aspects of the community life so that in addition to preservation of the dialect also the speakers’ enthusiasm for their own language will be enhanced.
Primary investigator: Lidia Napiorkowska
Project Details
Location: Iraq, Middle East, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £90,015.00
Commencement Date: 01/2009
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