Documenting Kokama-Kokamilla: texts, grammar and lexicon
  
      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).
            Kokama-Kokamilla is a deeply endangered language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. The need for documentation is urgent as nearly all of the estimated 1500 remaining speakers are elderly people, and natural processes of language transmission have been interrupted. This project involves a significant fieldwork component leading to a comprehensive grammar, a lexicon and collection of texts and video and audio recordings, which will contribute to ongoing language revitalization efforts. The grammar will include substantial analysis of discourse aspects, as well as a historical account for grammaticalization phenomena shedding light on the evolution of the language, and potentially on the history of this people.
Primary investigator: Rosa Vallejos
          
                      
                  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: £15,187.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2002
            
                          Project Status: Completed
                      
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