Documentation of the flora and fauna of Gongduk
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.
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
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