documentation of Jowshaqani, a Central Iranian language
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 Jowshaqani, a Central Iranian language spoken in Jowshaqan township in northern Isfahan province in Iran. With 3500 inhabitants, Jowshaqan township is situated some 120 km north of the city of Isfahan at the border of an area where Central Iranian dialects are spoken. Jowshaqani is increasingly giving way to Persian and there are fewer than 600 fluent speakers of this language. This documentation will include audio and video recordings with transcriptions, translations and annotations of the recorded data. The project will also provide a Jowshaqani/English/Persian dictionary.
Primary investigator: Esfandiar Taheri
Project Details
Location: Iran, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Freie Universität Berlin
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £8,458.00
Commencement Date: 01/2014
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