Documention of Animere, Ghana (Kwa, Niger-Congo): A Pilot Study
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).
Animere (ISO 639-3: anf) is a critically endangered Ghana-Togo Mountain language (Kwa, Niger-Congo) spoken north of the Volta Region, Ghana. A recent sociolinguistic survey of the language estimated that there were less than 30 speakers and that all but three of these speakers are over 40 years old. This project aims to provide a sample documentation and establish the feasibility of engaging in a full-scale language documentation of Animere. This project will also produce a thematic dictionary and a collection of varied naturally-occurring speech events in audio-visual format.
Primary investigator: Bryan Gelles
Project Details
Location: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Florida
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £9,667.00
Commencement Date: 01/2008
Project Status: Completed
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