Documentation of Ingrian: collecting and analyzing fieldwork data and digitizing legacy materials
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.
The project will document Ingrian, a Finnic language spoken in the Leningrad district of Russia (~150 speakers, average age is 80, ISO 639-3: izh; 59°43´ N, 28°28´ E). The main goals of the project are: a) To collect a vast corpus of modern language data; b) To transcribe and annotate modern texts; c) To digitize and annotate legacy materials; d) To document the phonology, morphology and syntax of modern Ingrian; e) To compile a morphological dictionary and a grammar sketch for further use as a basis of community teaching materials; f) To compile a book of Ingrian texts.
Primary investigator: Fedor Rozhanskiy
Project Details
Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Tartu
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £77,078.00
Commencement Date: 01/2006
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