Aleut conversation corpus: a comprehensive, audio/visual multi-speaker, multi-setting, multi-topic, bi-dialectal documentation of everyday Aleut language use with bilingual transcription

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).

The Aleut language, indigenous to the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA, is a branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. To preserve the manner and content of Aleut discourse, this project will record in audio, video and bilingual text, a major corpus of conversations and other language material deemed important by speakers and learners, on location, in a variety of seasonal settings, among the language's last fluent 70-100 native speakers. Primary investigator: Alice Taff

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Location: United States, Northern America, Americas Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): University of Washington Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £91,847.00 Commencement Date: 01/1999 Project Status: Completed
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