The Pewenche lowlands and summerlands: documenting Chedungun.
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 two Pewenche migratory cycles: the lowland and summerland seasons. Our goal is to create an extensive documentation of Chedungun, the Mapudungun variant spoken by approximately 5000 Pewenche speakers, as is naturally used in the seasonal journeys and stays throughout the Andean valleys of the Alto Biobío region, south-central Chile. This will allow to expand the more restricted focus on summerlands of our previous collection, and hence to provide a more representative corpus of the whole net of linguistic practices embedded in the Pewenche migratory lifestyle. |
Project Details
Location: Argentina, Chile, South America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 42,904.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 06/2023
Project Status: Active
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