Documentation and description Beirut Domari, an endangered variety of Domari.
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).
| This project aims at documenting the endangered Domari dialect of Beirut (Lebanon). Domari is one of the very few diasporic Indic languages. It is spoken by the Middle Eastern Dom, commonly known as the Gypsies of the Middle East. There are no reliable figures about the number of speakers of Domari. The goal is to produce at least 20 hours of annotated audio and video recordings documenting a wide variety of textual genres, as well as to create material that will address the desire of the community to formally teach the language to various internal audiences. Specific outcomes will be the production of a grammatical sketch, a lexicon, a multimedia dictionary and a collection of narrative and procedural texts. |
Project Details
Location: Beirut, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): CNRS - Laboratoire de Langues & Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LACITO), Paris Sorbonne
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 63,107.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 02/2015
Project Status: Completed
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