Panará Digital Documentation Project
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.
Panará is a Jê language spoken in the Brazilian Amazon area by an estimated 500 speakers. The aim of this project is to produce a rich set of materials documenting the language, consisting of high-quality transcriptions of recordings and videos of spontaneous, traditional and ritual speech and traditional cultural practices. The outcome of the project will be a rich corpus of carefully transcribed and annotated Panará language recordings, a digital dictionary made in collaboration with members of the community, a set of videos depicting Panará cultural activities, and a set of high quality monolingual texts that the community can use to further develop teaching materials.
Primary investigator: Bernat Bardagil-Mas
Project Details
Location: Brazil, South America, Brazil, Americas, United States of America
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Groningen
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £7,671.00
Commencement Date: 01/2011
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