Documentation of Cifungwa Folktales
  
      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).
            Cifungwa [ISO 639-3 Ula] is an endangered Benue-Congo, West Kainji language that is spoken in the Ringa communities of Rafi Local Government area, Niger state, Nigeria (10°23'34.4"N 6°27'46.6"E). Due to war, migration and the political hegemony of the Hausa people, the speakers are generally shifting to speaking Hausa. As a result of this, various aspects of their culture (e.g. religion, folktales and music) are being forgotten. Only about 20 of 1000 speakers of Cifungwa currently practice their culture/religion. The project aims to document Cifungwa folktales with help from these few local practitioners. The result of the field research will be pictures, annotated audio, audiovisual data, a dictionary, and texts which will be made available to the community. In addition, my PhD thesis will be based on some aspects of the data.
Primary investigator: Samuel Akinbo
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Nigeria,               Western Africa,               Africa
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): University of British Columbia
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £8,060.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2013
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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