Saving Oral Literature of Domaaki: A Severely Endangered 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).
| Domaaki ([?oma:ki], aka Dumaki, Domaki; ISO 639-3: dmk; Glottolog: doma1260) is a severely endangered language spoken in two villages by dozen of fluent speakers in northern Pakistan. It belongs to the central zone of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian group, which is part of the Indo-European language family. The language is called Domaaki or Dumaki by outsiders, but the community itself prefers the term Dawoodi. The project will: (a) create a corpus of 40 hours audio and video recordings of different genres, (b) annotate a corpus of texts of 10 hours in ELAN/Flex, video and audio recordings of natural and elicited Domaaki data, c); train Domaaki language speakers in language documentation; and (d) capture still photographs of cultural artifacts and different activities. Native speakers will be involved as collaborators at all levels of the project. The data acquired will be useful for linguists working in language description and comparative linguistics. |
Project Details
Location: Pakistan, Southern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 7,747.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 01/2024
Project Status: Active
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