Documenting traditional agricultural songs and stories of the Sumi Nagas

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.

Sumi (ISO: nsm) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland, Northeast India (+25° 65' 5.00†Primary investigator: Amos Teo

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Location: India, Southern Asia, Asia Organiser(s): Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Project partner(s): Australian National University Funder(s): Arcadia Funding received: £6,173.00 Commencement Date: 01/2007
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