Tundra Nenets Grammar
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.
Tundra Nenets belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by approximately 25,000 people in Arctic Russia and north-western Siberia. The grammar of Tundra Nenets, especially its syntax, is not well documented, and no collection of glossed texts is available. The purpose of the project is to develop a book-length description of Tundra Nenets in a transparent and theory-neutral manner, augmented with annotated texts and a vocabulary. The team consists of Tapani Salminen, a researcher in Nenets and other Samoyed languages, Irina Nikolaeva, with a special field of expertise in typology and Uralic languages, and Farrell Ackerman, a theoretical linguist with a focus on Uralic languages.
Primary investigator: Tapani Salminen
Project Details
Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Finno-Ugrian Society
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £39,000.00
Commencement Date: 01/1999
Project owner? Update this project
