Documentation of Murut, Bookan (ISO 639-3 bnb)
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).
| Murut, Bookan (bnb) is an Austronesian language spoken by an estimated 2,400 bnb speakers in the interior divisions of Sabah, Malaysia. The vitality status of bnb is classified as 7-shifting at risk of language shift, attrition, and death. This project proposes to document (audio and video) naturalistic and elicited recordings and images of artefacts demonstrating cultural-linguistic practices as well as create a database comprising metadata of different genres and text types in various contexts. The corpus will form a basis for lexicon establishment and morphosyntactic analyses made accessible to the community, linguists and a wider range of users. |
Project Details
Location: Malaysia, South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universiti Malaya
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 10,000.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 07/2023
Project Status: Active
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