Documentation and Description of Hrusso Aka Language of Arunachal Pradesh

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 aims to document and describe Hrusso Aka, a language spoken by about 3000 speakers in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is an interesting language because of its dissimilarities with other languages in the region. It is highly endangered due to a rapid language shift to Hindi. The project will involve collection, annotation and archiving of video, audio and text samples of Hrusso Aka, and production of a written grammar, primers, a dictionary and digital media outputs. The project also aims to train local language consultants in orthography, literature development and language support. Primary investigator: Vijay Alwin D'Souza

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Location: India, Southern Asia, Asia Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £64,215.00 Commencement Date: 01/2011 Project Status: Active
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