Grammar of Minyag, a minority language of Western Sichuan
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).
Minyag is an under-documented Tibeto-Burman language spoken by roughly 10,000 people in villages clustered around Gangkar Mountain (CH: Gongga Shan) in Kangding County, western Sichuan, China. This project’s primary outcomes are the creation of cross-sectional audio and audio-visual corpora documenting a variety of language uses; the publication and promotion a locally authored Minyag-Chinese-Tibetan-English Dictionary; and an M.A. thesis on the grammar of Minyag useful for future studies on the language’s typological classification. This project includes rich annotation and translations in Simplified Mandarin, English, and Standard Tibetan orthographies to make data accessible to the Minyag language community and local scholars.
Primary investigator: Agnes Conrad
Project Details
Location: China, China, Mexico, China, Central America, Eastern Asia, Asia, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Qinghai Nationalities University
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £9,749.00
Commencement Date: 01/2014
Project Status: Active
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