Documentation and description of the Djeoromitxí language from Amazonia, Brazil
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 will undertake the documentation of Djeoromitxí (Jaboti branch, Macro-Jê grouping), a severely endangered language. The Djeoromitxí people live in the indigenous lands, T.I.Rio Guaporé and T.I. Rio Branco, located in southern Rondonia, Amazonia, Brazil. The work will train the Djeoromitxí speakers in documentation to lay the groundwork to generate a documentary corpus in video, audio, texts, and linguistically annotated ELAN files, covering a wide range of discourse types and genres. Other goals are to elaborate a lexical database for a preliminary Portuguese-Djeoromitxí dictionary and to understand the aspects of grammar of the language for a preliminary grammar book. This documentation is quite urgent, once Djeoromitxí has become severely threatened (comprising only 23 fluent and 12 quasi-fluent speakers out of a population of 157) |
Project Details
Location: Brazil, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 69,002.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 11/2022
Project Status: Active
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