Documentation of the flora and fauna of Gongduk
  
      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).
            This project will produce the first documentation of the Gongduk language, an endangered language spoken by up to 2,000 people in a remote region of Eastern Bhutan. The precise classification remains unknown, though it is tentatively considered a Tibeto-Burman isolate. In addition to documenting the language in a variety of contexts and producing a phonological analysis and grammatical sketch, the core of this project will be to produce a full ethnobotanical analysis of Gongduk flora and fauna.
Primary investigator: Karma Tshering
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Bhutan,               Southern Asia,               Asia
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): University of Sydney
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £68,470.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2010
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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