Adapting to a changing landscape: A documentation of Tjhauba cultural practices and subsistence strategies
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).
| Tjhauba is an endangered Bantu (S311) language spoken by fewer than 1000 people in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. Children have stopped learning Tjhauba in favor of Tswana, the official language of Botswana. Though a Bantu language, Tjhauba has long been in contact with Khoe languages and has adopted unique phonological and lexical features from surrounding communities. This documentary corpus of diverse cultural practices, subsistence strategies, and traditional ecological knowledge will provide insights into how communities living in the unique ecology of the Kavango region adapt to their changing landscape as global temperatures increase. |
Project Details
Location: Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Rochester
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 8,607.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 06/2023
Project Status: Completed
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