A grammatical description of the Kohi Rai language of Eastern Nepal
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).
| Koyi Rai is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Kiranti group spoken by about 2000 people in Eastern Nepal. Due to contact with the national language Nepali (an Indo-Aryan language), Koyi is becoming seriously endangered, with no remaining monolingual speakers. The goals of the project are to produce materials for as complete a documentation as possible: this includes a trilingual dictionary, a grammatical description, and a collection of annotated texts based on recordings of traditional stories and other oral materials. The project is carried out in affiliation with LACITO-CNRS, where an online archiving project for endangered oral languages, synchronizing text and sound, is underway. |
Project Details
Location: Nepal, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): CNRS - Laboratoire de Langues & Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LACITO), Paris Sorbonne
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 57,403.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 12/2004
Project Status: Completed
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