Collaborative corpus building and thematic dictionaries of Ramari Dongosaro (Sonsorolese)
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).
| Ramari Dongosaro (Sonsorolese) (ISO 639-3: sov) is the language of Sonsorol a Southwest Island of the Republic of Palau, a Micronesian nation in the western Pacific. According to Eberhard et al. (2021), endangered Sonsorolese is currently spoken by less than 400 speakers. A team composed by a linguist and the Sonsorol State Youth Organisation Young Historians aim at testing thematic dictionaries (Mosel 2011), structured using ESL lesson planning methodologies, for the documentation of this lesser-documented language. Active elicitation and discussion groups, along with audio and video recordings of those sessions and of cultural practices in their social context, aim to shed light on meaning meta-discourse and create a corpus for Sonsorolese.ReferencesEberhard, D. M., Simons, G. F. & Fennig, C. D. 2021. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-fourth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com (8 December, 2020).Mosel, U. (2011). Lexicography in endangered language communities. In Austin, P. and Sallabank, J. (eds.). The handbook of endangered languages. Cambridge: CUP, pp. 337-353. |
Project Details
Location: Sonsorol Village, Palau, Micronesian Region, Oceania
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Sonsorol State Governent, Youth Organisation, Young Historians
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 10,000.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 10/2022
Project Status: Completed
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