Linguistic Documentation of Tinigua
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.
Tinigua [ISO 639-3: tit] is the last surviving member of an independent South American Tiniguan family whose other (two?) members have disappeared without substantial documentation; with only one remaining speaker, it is now critically endangered. Additionally, the language is seriously underdocumented and underdescribed. This project aims to provide a linguistic documentation of Tinigua through work with Sixto Muñoz, its last remaining speaker. The expected outcomes of this project are a transcribed, translated and annotated audio-visual corpus of the language, a grammatical description, and a lexicon. Additionally, I aim to gather further historical and cultural data on the Tiniguan culture.
Primary investigator: Katherine Bolaños
Project Details
Location: Colombia, Cuba, Colombia, Caribbean, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Texas at Austin
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £147,399.00
Commencement Date: 01/2013
Project Status: Active
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