A pan-dialectal documentation of Laz (South Caucasian)
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).
| This project will document the four dialects of Laz, a non-written South Caucasian language spoken in North-East Turkey (ISO-639 lzz, +41° 19' 12.39", +41° 15' 37.90"). Estimates of the number of speakers vary widely between 33,000 and 250,000. Nonetheless, Laz is a highly endangered language, as young people do not speak it. Turkish is the language of education, administration and the media. The outcome will be a digital corpus of 50 hours of audio and video recordings, transcribed and translated into Turkish, out of which 5 hours will be provided with an interlinear gloss. Various genres will be documented. To this end, two fieldwork trips will be undertaken, totaling 11 months. |
Project Details
Location: Turkey, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 43,479.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 09/2011
Project Status: Completed
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