Documentation of Emplawas and languages of the Babar islands
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).
| Emplawas is spoken in one village on south Babar island by a hundred or less people. It belongs to the Austronesian Babar subgroup which has unusual morphophonemic processes and historical sound changes. This project is a comprehensive documentation of Emplawas resulting in a fully annotated audio-visual corpus, dictionary, grammatical description, and a picture dictionary for community use. This project also involves a survey and initial documentation of six neighbouring languages: Imroing, Tela-Masbuar, Southeast Babar, North Babar, Serili, and East Masela. It will produce for each a short annotated corpus, long wordlist, and grammatical notes. |
Project Details
Location: Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universität zu Köln
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 150,434.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 07/2023
Project Status: Active
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