Documentation of Ecuadorian Secoya
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 serves the extensive documentation of the endangered Amazonian language Secoya, a West Tucanoan language that is presently still spoken by around 1,000 people divided by the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border. The participatory project focuses on the Ecuadorian variety with less than 500 speakers, producing annotated audio/video recordings on a wide range of cultural practices and genres, to be archived with ELAR and FLACSO. It will further provide a substantial electronic dictionary (Secoya-Spanish-English) with a print version and accompanying pedagogical material which will form the basis for the future elaboration of a much required practical grammar.
Primary investigator: Anne Schwarz
Project Details
Location: Ecuador, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £108,792.00
Commencement Date: 01/2008
Project Status: Completed
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