Language, environment and social cognition in southeastern Yunnan: A holistic documentation of multimodal communication amongst the Phola.
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).
| Phola is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of China spoken by roughly 4000 people in small-scale farming-herding communities clustered in the mountain ranges of Yuanjiang County in southeastern Yunnan Province. This project's outcomes include firstly the compilation, annotation, interlinearisation, multilingual translation and archival of cross-sectional data on language use in various Phola villages. Secondly, the creation of two groundbreaking corpora designed to investigate and showcase documentary fieldwork methods and socio-ecological factors motivating language usage. Finally, the production of a multimodal grammar and lexicon of Phola, published as open access resources in an innovative digital format with embedded audio and video. |
Project Details
Location: China, Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Sydney
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 202,861.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 07/2023
Project Status: Active
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