Enriching the media corpus for Western Pantar (Lamma), a Papuan outlier language of eastern Indonesia
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 will enrich primary linguistic data in support of efforts to assemble comprehensive documentation of Western Pantar (Lamma), a Papuan outlier language of Eastern Indonesia. The project builds upon initial fieldwork conducted by the applicant in 2004-2007. The project will undertake eight months of field work in order to: (1) to annotate existing recordings; (2) collect and annotate recordings documenting genre not well-covered in existing documentation (including conversation and ritual poetry); and (3) train local researchers in transcription techniques.
Primary investigator: Gary Holton
Project Details
Location: Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Alaska Fairbanks
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £10,000.00
Commencement Date: 01/2004
Project Status: Completed
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