Documenting Ecuadorian Siona Linguistic Variation: The collection and anotation of a sociolinguistically and culturally informed video corpus
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).
Ecuadorian Siona (ISO-639-3snn; /200.09, -76.14) is a severely endangered Western Tukanoan language spoken by less than 200 speakers in 6 villages on the Cuyabeno and Aguarico rivers in East Ecuador. This project aims to document rapidly disappearing cultural knowledge, such as the oral history, shamanistic practices, traditional ways of cooking and making artifacts. The outcomes of this project will be an transcribed, translated and annotated audio-visual corpus, community materials, the training of community documenters and linguistic resources, including a culturally informed lexicon and linguistic papers on the dialectal variation between the Aguarico and Cuyabeno communities and language contact phenomena.
Primary investigator: Martine Bruil
Project Details
Location: Ecuador, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of California, Berkeley
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £75,381.00
Commencement Date: 01/2010
Project Status: Completed
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