Documentation of five Zoquean languages spoken in Mexico: Chiapas Zoque, Jitotoltec, San Miguel Chimalapa, Santa Maria Chimalapa, Highland Popoluca
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.
This project will document five languages of the Zoquean branch, members of the Mixe-Zoquean language family. All the languages are spoken in the South of Mexico. Chiapas Zoque and Jitotoltec are spoken in Chiapas, Highland Popoluca in Veracruz, whereas San Miguel Chimalapa and Santa Maria Chimalapa are spoken in Oaxaca. All the five languages are endangered. The project will annotate high-quality videos regarding different communicative events selected by a team of linguists who are members of the speech communities. The material will be transcribed, translated, and analyzed in ELAN/FLEX. Most of the documentation and difussion of the results will be carried out by members of the different speech communities.
Primary investigator: Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Project Details
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): Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en AntropologÃÂ
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £101,843.00
Commencement Date: 01/2013
Project Status: Active
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