Documenting Lhokpu and Black Mountain Mönpa languages in Bhutan and their endangered yarn production practices
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 innovative project aims to document the highly endangered North-Eastern Black Mountain Mönpa (approx. 275 speakers) and Lhokpu (approx. 800 speakers) languages of Bhutan, coupling the linguistic documentation with that of the equally endangered practices of natural fibre yarn production. We will document the process of making yarn from locally grown cotton and nettle fibres - from managing the plants to production of the final product. All the language associated with these processes will be collected along the way, together with language in other contexts (e.g. conversation, narrations, procedural texts, elicitation, but not only as these pertain to the yarn production). |
Project Details
Location: Thimphu, Bhutan, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Sydney
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 230,491.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 10/2023
Project Status: Active
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