Pan-Dialectal Documentation of the Yei Language.
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).
Yei is a Yam family language spoken in the Merauke region of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by several hundred people who live in seven villages in the border region between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Yei’s key position as a primary branch of the Yam family makes it the crucial next step in unlocking the linguistic history of this region. The project will involve pan-dialectal documentation from all seven villages resulting in an audio-visual corpus, a general dictionary, three specialised lexicons and a collection of texts compiled into a single volume curated by the community.
Primary investigator: Matthew Carroll
Project Details
Location: Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Australian National University
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £136,901.00
Commencement Date: 01/2015
Project Status: Active
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