The Pehuenche Summerlands: Documenting Chedungun in a Semi-nomadic Journey.
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).
| This project aims to document a varying set of communicative events surrounding a semi-nomadic journey of a Pehuenche family through the Andean valleys of Butalelbún, Alto Biobío, Chile. The project is conceived of as a topic-driven approximation to Chedungun, a Mapudungun dialect spoken by approximately 5000 speakers along the Queuco valley. Its central aim is to capture Chedungun potential to express spatiotemporal relations and articulate, by this and other communicative means, the Pehuenche transitional lifestyle. Audio-video recordings will register both naturally occurring and elicited speech events, before, during and after the seasonal ascent to the ‘veranada’ (Pehuenche’s sacred summer grasslands). |
Project Details
Location: Chile, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universidad Católica de Temuco
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 6,284.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 11/2019
Project Status: Completed
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