A preliminary documentation of Bolivian Guaraní
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.
Bolivian Guaraní is a Tupi-Guaraní language spoken in the South East of Bolivia. This language is spoken by around 40.000 speakers, but it is threatened, because younger speakers are switching to Spanish. This collaborative project with the community has three aims: first, a preliminary documentation of Bolivian Guaraní, consisting of an open-access archive of a 4-hour audio and video database including traditional stories; second, a thematic glossary of terms for tools (agricultural, hunting and building tools), for the use of the community; and third, a Master thesis consisting of a sociolinguistic report and a revision of the phonological analysis.
Primary investigator: Windy Daviet
Project Details
Location: Bolivia, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): CNRS - Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), Université Lyon 2
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £7,474.00
Commencement Date: 01/2011
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