Documentation of oral texts (life histories, folk tales, local historical lore), poems, idioms and riddles of Torwali
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).
| The aim of this project is to collect and document oral texts, such as life histories, folktales, local historical lore, poems, idioms and riddles of Torwali (ISO-639-3 Code trw), an endangered language of the northern Pakistan. The documented material will be made available for the speech community in the form of booklets and in digitized form for the academic community. It will supplement the Torwali-English-Urdu dictionary project funded by National Geographic, with the addition of related lexical items. The project is community-based since the principal applicant and all other people involved in the project are native speakers. |
Project Details
Location: Pakistan, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Management and Technology (UMT)
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 9,599.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 05/2010
Project Status: Completed
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