Documentation of the Saru dialect of Ainu
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).
I propose to undertake a two-year documentation of the Saru dialect of Ainu which is nearly extinct at present, as only a couple of persons aged 80/1990 on the South of Hokkaido Island in Northern Japan remember their native language.I intend to produce a corpus of previously recorded unpublished audio materials of Mrs. Kimi Kimura (1900-1988) and a corpus of newly collected audio materials with time-aligned transcriptions, multi-tire annotation, and translations into English and Japanese to be deposited with a web-accessible digital archive ELAR at SOAS and at Chiba University which will serve as a mirror site.
Primary investigator: Anna Bugaeva
Project Details
Location: Japan, Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Chiba University, then transferred to Waseda University
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £71,225.00
Commencement Date: 01/2003
Project Status: Completed
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