LAVAFLOW: Legacy Audio Video Archival in Fourteen Languages of the World
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).
Seven different researchers at LACITO, now retired, have in the course of their careers made precious field recordings, preserved only as tapes or cassettes. These pertain to 14 different endangered languages: Bafia, Vute, and Tikar in Cameroon (Guarisma); Kiamu in Kenya, Shimaore and Shingazidja in Mayotte, and Gbanzili in the Central African Republic (Rombi); Badaga in India (Pilot-Raichoor); Zenaga and Hassaniya in Mauritania (Taine-Cheikh); Yemeni Arabic in Yemen (Naïm); Volow in Vanuatu (Vienne); and Hamea and Xârâgurè in New Caledonia (Moyse-Faurie). This project will allow these audio recordings to be digitized, archived, and made accessible to the public.
Primary investigator: Alexandre François
Project Details
Location: Cameroon, Middle Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): LACITO, CNRS
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £6,995.00
Commencement Date: 01/2013
Project Status: Active
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