Comparative documentation of the Myene language cluster
  
      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 comparative documentation of the Myene language cluster will result in a large anddiverse set of recorded and transcribed communicative events, a lexicological database and a dialectological database documenting the six language varieties of the Myene language (MYE), viz. Enenga, Adyumba, Mpongwe, Orungu, Galwa and Nkomi. Contrary to what is claimed in Ethnologue, the Enenga variety is probably dead, so that we will at most be able to work with rememberers. Adyumba, spoken in villages around Lake Ezingo near Lambaréné is moribund. It will be the focus of our documentation efforts.
Primary investigator: Mark Van de Velde
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Gabon,               Middle Africa,               Africa
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): CNRS - Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire (LLACAN - UMR 8135), Paris Villejuif
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £117,542.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2006
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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