Documentation of Cabiyarí
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).
| Cabiyarí is a severely endangered language spoken today by less than 20 speakers who live scattered along 6 different villages on the shores of the Cananarí and Apaporis Rivers in the Vaupés area of Northwest-Amazonia, in Eastern Colombia. The language has been classified as Northern-Maipuran branch of the Arawakan family. The remaining speakers of the language use Cabiyarí only in private, ritual or family contexts, while favoring the use of one (or all) of the 5 Eastern-Tukanoan languages also spoken in the villages where Cabiyarí speakers inhabit. This project aims to document the Cabiyarí language as well as a documentation of its speakerÀ¢â‚¬Ä¢s rapidly disappearing cultural practices and traditional knowledge. The outcomes of this project will be a transcribed, translated, and annotated audiovisual corpus of Cabiyarí, a documentation of cultural practices, and the training of community people in documentation processes, a lexicon and a sketch grammar. Likewise, this project will provide further data that can be used for the reconstruction of historical and cultural heritage of a severely endangered language and ethnic group. |
Project Details
Location: Colombia, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): MPI Leipziga
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 81,376.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 09/2022
Project Status: Active
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