Documentation and description of Nasa Yuwe, the vernacular language of the Nasa people of the Colombian Andes
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's primary goal is the documentation of the Nasa Yuwe language (formerly Páez), the vernacular language of an important proportion (ca. 100,000 speakers) of the indigenous Nasa (aka Páez) people (ca. 150,000 ethnic members) in the Southwestern Andes of Colombia. Recent studies demonstrate the rapid decline of the intergenerational transmission and use of Nasa Yuwe in the youngest generations. The audio and video recordings to be collected in this project with the active participation of young community members will result in an important corpus of data susceptible to be used for the production of a description of the language and educational materials for the Nasa community.
Primary investigator: Esteban Diaz Montenegro
Project Details
Location: Colombia, Cuba, Colombia, Caribbean, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): CNRS - Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), Université Lyon 2
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £67,630.00
Commencement Date: 01/2010
Project Status: Active
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