Chirag Documentation Project
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.
The project will document Chirag, an endangered language from the Dargwa branch of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) family, spoken in Daghestan, Russia (2100-2400 speakers). The main goal of the project is to collect a rich corpus of audio/video data from both traditional narratives and everyday communication. I propose to record about 110 hours of Chirag (spontaneous speech, lexical and grammatical elicitation), of which at least 25 hours of spontaneous speech will be transcribed, morphologically analyzed and translated to produce an annotated corpus of Chirag available on the internet.
Primary investigator: Geoffrey Haig
Project Details
Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Department of General Linguistics, University of Bamberg
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £103,436.00
Commencement Date: 01/2010
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