Documentation of Cora in San Juan Corapan

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).

The Primary product of this project will be an open access, digital corpus of 30 hours of video and audio of Cora language; including traditional genres of narrative, procedural discourse on topics of local plants and agricultural techniques, and natural conversation data. Primary investigator: Bill Parker

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Location: Mexico, Mexico, Philippines, Central America, South-Eastern Asia, Mexico, Asia, Americas, United States of America Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £8,113.00 Commencement Date: 01/2014 Project Status: Active
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