Documentation of the Mayoruna languages of western Amazonia: a compilation of recordings of oral history narratives and other speech genres
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).
Of the five extant languages in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family, only Matses andMatis have been described, but even for these no archived recordings or text databases areavailable. Kulina, Demushbo and Chankueshbo are spoken by people who the Matsescaptured 45-70 years ago. I propose to record, transcribe, and translate a total of 165 hours ofMatses, Kulina, Chankueshbo and Demushbo speech (2500, 30, 2 and 1 speakers,respectively; Amazonian Peru and Brazil, 73°9'W, 5°17'S), of which 30% will be parsed andannotated, to be archived and to produce a book and dictionary for the Matses.
Primary investigator: David Fleck
Project Details
Location: Peru, South America, Peru, Peru, Americas, United States of America
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Oregon
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £103,068.00
Commencement Date: 01/2006
Project Status: Completed
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