Textual and lexical documentation of Ixcatec, a highly endangered Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico
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.
Ixcatec is a highly endangered language belonging to the Popolocan branch of the Otomanguean language family. There are 9 fluent speakers all of whom reside in Santa Maria Ixcatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. This project will produce the only extensive, archival-quality corpus of recorded and transcribed time-coded Ixcatec texts. A lexicon will also be generated incorporating all lexical items in the transcribed corpus. The results of this project will establish the basis for future studies of this language and family and will be made available to the community, the interested public and scholars.
Primary investigator: Denis Costaouec
Project Details
Location: Mexico, Mexico, Philippines, Central America, South-Eastern Asia, Mexico, Asia, Americas, United States of America
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universite de Paris - Rene Descartes
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £55,018.00
Commencement Date: 01/2006
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