Documentation of Smar-skad spoken in Dpal-ri, Brag-gyab: language and culture

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).

Smar-skad is an understudied and underdocumented Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Chamdo, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. While native speakers are of Tibetan ethnicity, Smar-skad is seemingly a "non-Tibetan" language with close relationship with Rgyalrongic languages. Smar-skad has 3 mutually unintelligible dialects with estimated population of 8,000 ~ 9,000. The goals of this project are: (1) an annotated data set in multiple types of media (audio, video, texts, etc.) that covers linguistic and cultural perspectives of the language community; (2) archived data to be deposited with ELAR and Pangloss; (3) typological and historical studies of Smar-skad to be presented in my PhD thesis; and (4) a Smar-Tibetan-Chinese-English dictionary.

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Location: Tibet Autonomous Region Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: 30,607 EUR Commencement Date: 01/2022 Project Status: Active
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