Documentation and revitalization of Tofa: fieldwork with the last speakers
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.
The project is devoted to the documentation Tofa, a critically endangered South Siberian Turkic language spoken in three remote villages on the eastern Sayan mountains: Alygdzher, Nerha and Verkhnyaya Gutara, Nizhneudinsk region of Irkutsk Oblast. There are only 5 full speakers of Tofa and approximately 10 rememberers. The aim of the project is to document as much data as possible to create a corpus of Tofa language with the last speakers who are over 70 and develop an audio phrasebook and audio dictionary for the community to maintain their language and prevent the language loss.
Primary investigator: Arzhaana Syuryun
Project Details
Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Goethe University Frankfurt
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £9,064.00
Commencement Date: 01/2013
Project Status: Active
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