Documentary corpus of Chhitkul, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Northern India.
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.
This project will produce a documentary corpus on Chhitkul, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken across two villages in Himachal Pradesh, India. This will be the first ever corpus of Chhitkul. Unwritten and exclusively spoken at home, Chhitkul is endangered and threatened by the spread of Hindi. This project will collect a corpus of audio-video recordings of speech samples in different genres, primarily everyday conversations, but also narratives, traditional genres, and some elicited materials. The corpus will serve as a foundation for the development of further linguistic fieldwork and aid in the investigation of grammatical features and language support initiatives.
Primary investigator: Philippe Martinez
Project Details
Location: India, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): SOAS, University of London
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £8,932.00
Commencement Date: 01/2014
Project Status: Active
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