Documenting and Surveying Eastern Minyag Varieties
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).
| Eastern Minyag is a virtually unstudied Tibeto-Burman language spoken by perhaps no more than 2,000 people in sparsely populated, mountainous villages of western Shimian County and eastern Jiulong County, western Sichuan, China. This project's primary outcomes will be a cross-sectional audiovisual corpus representative of extant Eastern Minyag varieties, all but one of which are undocumented. This corpus will contribute to a Ph.D. project (a descriptive grammar of Eastern Minyag) and be made available to speakers through a community archive. Project files deposited with ELAR will include IPA transcriptions, interlinear glossing, and written translations in Simplified Mandarin and English. |
Project Details
Location: China, Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Sydney
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 15,965 EUR
Commencement Date: 01/2022
Project Status: Completed
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