Tachenwit
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).
| Tachenwit is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the two large regions of Dahra and Chenoua (Algeria). This documentation project will spicificly follow the community of the region of Tipaza (Algeria). It will collecte a corpus of approximately 30 hours of audiovisual recordings of natural conversations, interviews, songs, tales, proverbs, rituals, recipes of traditional dishes and riddles, including 5 hours of transcribed and translated data to English and French (including silences). Additionaly, outcomes will include a PhD thesis, a dictionnary as well as research papers and presentations. |
Project Details
Location: Algeria, Northern Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Ecole doctorale n°224 Cognition Langage Interaction. Paris 8 University
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 77,017.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 11/2024
Project Status: Active
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