Documenting environmental knowledge in Abui, a language of eastern Indonesia

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).

This project documents ecological knowledge of the Abui people. Abui (ISO 639-3 abz), a non-Austronesian language of the Alor-Pantar family of Eastern Indonesia, is likely to be much more endangered than indicated by speaker number surveys, which give figures of around 16,000. Recently, there is rapid shift to Malay among the younger generation. Focusing on the Abui nomenclature, classification, characteristics, and use of food- and medicinal- plants, this interdisciplinary project will create Abui audio- and video- recordings, with accompanying transcriptions and translations, as well as voucher specimens and high-quality photographic images of plants. Primary investigator: Blake

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Location: Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia, Asia Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): University of Hawaii at Manoa Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £9,997.00 Commencement Date: 01/2014 Project Status: Active
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