Las "Mareñas": A documentation of Huave women's livelihood
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).
| Huave is an endangered isolate language spoken by an estimated 18,340 people in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. Transmission of the language in most of its speech communities is limited as they shift to Spanish. This project focuses on documenting the varied cultural activities (and the language used to describe them) that fall under female domains in four Huave communities: San Mateo del Mar, San Dionisio del Mar, San Francisco del Mar, and Santa María del Mar. The corpus will feed into descriptive work on subordination and clause-embedding verbs for Constanza Aceves Rodríguez's doctoral thesis. |
Project Details
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico, Central America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Rochester
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 112,185 EUR
Commencement Date: 01/2023
Project Status: Active
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