An Audiovisual Corpus of Caquinte (Arawak)
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).
Caquinte [ISO 639-3: cot] is a Kampan Arawak language spoken by 300-400 people in Peruvian Amazonia. It is rapidly losing ground to neighboring and related Asháninka and Matsigenka, with many residents of Caquinte communities speaking one of these latter two languages, or code-switching among them. This project responds to the urgent situation of Caquinte by documenting and describing the language via the expansion of an extant corpus, with a focus on the relation of textual material to regional flora, fauna, and topological features. Products will be a written and audiovisual corpus, draft dictionaries, a dialect survey, and a PhD dissertation.
Primary investigator: Zachary O'Hagan
Project Details
Location: Peru, South America, Peru, Peru, Americas, United States of America
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of California, Berkeley
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £16,587.00
Commencement Date: 01/2012
Project Status: Completed
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