Documentation and description of Kuna: a community-based approach to documentation and grammar-writing
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 is a response to the limited documentation and description available to thecommunity members of Kuna, a Chibchan language spoken mostly in the Panamanian-Colombianborder area, with an estimated 44,100 speakers. It seeks to document instances of naturallyoccurring speech in Kuna and to process new and old recordings making them available to thecommunity. In addition to the new material produced, the project will produce a comprehensivegrammar of the language, with an emphasis on community interests of strengthening andrevitalization. The ISO-639 code for Kuna is cuk, located at 9°24' N latitude, 78°19' W longitude.
Primary investigator: Wikaliler Smith
Project Details
Location: Panama, Panama, Central America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Texas at Austin
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £17,674.00
Commencement Date: 01/2005
Project Status: Completed
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