A pan-dialectal documentation of Wik-Ngathan and Wik-Ngatharr: Cape York Peninsula, Australia
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).
| Wik-Ngathan and Wik-Ngatharr/Wik-Alken are Paman language varieties spoken on the westcoast of Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Australia. Speaker numbers (approx. 100) have significantly declined as the younger generation shift to the lingua franca of the area, Wik-Mungkan, and English. This documentation project involves working with speakers of Wik-Ngathan and Wik-Ngatharr to collect a range of transcribed and time-aligned audio and videolanguage data. The documentation materials will form the basis for community-orientedresources and further descriptive work, including a detailed analysis of the demonstrativesystem in the languages. (ISO 639-3wig. -13.603. 141.816). |
Project Details
Location: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): SOAS University of London
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 19,194 GBP
Commencement Date: 03/2011
Project Status: Completed
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