Sakun (Sukur) language documentation project
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).
The Sakun (Sukur) Language Documentation Project will provide a discourse-based corpus of an endangered and undocumented language of the Mandara mountains, Nigeria.Sakun is spoken by approximately 15,000 people. Since the enlistment of Sukur in 1999 as aUNESCO Cultural Landscape, the increased contact following infrastructure development hascaused Sakun to give way to Hausa in a number of domains.Working with local stakeholders, this project will assemble a corpus that captures a broadrange of cultural practices identified as important by the community, and provide thefoundation for a grammar, dictionary and pedagogical materials to support the community'sown efforts at language maintenance.
Primary investigator: Michael Thomas
Project Details
Location: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Colorado, Boulder
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £29,993.00
Commencement Date: 01/2006
Project Status: Completed
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