Documenting multilingualism in interaction: the Yukuna and Tanimuka of the Miriti-Parana (Colombia).
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 focuses on Yukuna (Arawakan) and Tanimuka (Tukanoan), spoken by the Yukuna, Matapi, Tanimuka and Letuama groups in the Mirití-Paraná region in Colombian Amazonia. These groups are in intense and long-term contact with one another, as they co-exist in highly multilingual communities along with members of other ethnic groups. This project aims at documenting the synchronic dynamics of multilingualism among Yukuna and Tanimuka speakers on the basis of conversational data. Since these languages are endangered, it is crucial that this work be carried out while the language ecologies that sustain multilingualism are still in place. |
Project Details
Location: Colombia, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): CNRS - Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL), Paris-Villejuif
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 121,569.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 10/2022
Project Status: Completed
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