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Wed Nov 9 13:46:52 UTC 2005

Dos doze projetos contemplados, três dizem respeito a línguas sul-americanas: Wichi (Laureano Segovia), Kokama-Kokamilla (Rosa Vallejos) e Sia Pedee (Jorge Gomez Rendon).

[Publicado originalmente na Linguist List, http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-3217.html ]

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Date: 07-Nov-2005 
From: Nick Emlen <emlen haskins.yale.edu>
Subject: 2005 Endangered Language Fund Grant Awardees

The Endangered Language Fund is happy to announce the 2005 grant awardees: 

Laureano Segovia - Documenting Wichi Language and Traditional Culture 
Wichi is a Matacoan language spoken in Argentina and southeastern Bolivia. 
The goal of the project is to document the last speakers of Wichi. Based on 
the recorded interviews, the researcher will produce a website and a 
printed collection of their accounts. Ethnologue code: [WLV] 

Elena V. Perekhvalskaya, St. Petersburg State University - Online 
Documentation of Udihe 
The Udihe language is spoken by fewer than 100 people in the Russian Far 
East. This project proposes to create a multimedia collection of linguistic 
and cultural information on Udihe available for public use on the internet. 
Ethnologue code: [UDE] 

Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley; Melodie George, Hoopa 
Valley High School; Victor Golla, Humboldt State University / University of 
California, Davis - A Returning Fluent Hupa Speaker: Documentation and 
Digital Language Materials 
Hupa, an Athabaskan language spoken in and near Hoopa Valley in 
northwestern California, has eight fluent speakers, all of whom are 
elderly. This year, a fluent Hupa speaker who has not been part of the 
speech community for many decades will work with the tribal language 
program. This project will document the returning speaker's language, and 
will help with the development of the recordings as educational resources. 
Ethnologue code: [HUP] 

Joel Nasveira Simo, Vanuatu National Language Committee - Reviving 
Vanuatu's Dying Languages 
The Mores language, spoken by around 75 people, is one of 32 languages 
spoken on the island of Santo in Vanuatu. Mores has never been studied, and 
there has never been an attempt to develop an orthography for the language. 
The researcher plans to make recordings of the language to be used for 
analysis of the grammar and phonology, as well as an archive of the oral 
history. He will also develop an orthography and literacy materials to be 
used in Mores language classes. Ethnologue code: [LMB] 

Mark Turin, University of Cambridge - Thangmi Shamanic Chants: Preserving 
An Endangered Ritual Language And Tradition From Nepal 
Thangmi is spoken by a small ethnic group in Nepal, India, and Tibet. The 
researcher has collected over 100 oral narratives from the Thangmi shamans, 
which constitute the oral history of the people. In this project, Turin 
will transcribe and analyze these texts and prepare a glossary of the 
ritual lexicon and terminology used by Thangmi shamans for publication in 
print and online. Ethnologue code: [THF] 

Pastor Dawari Braide - Documentation And Preservation Of The Kalabari 
Language For Posterity 
Kalabari is a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Niger River delta of 
southern Nigeria. The researcher plans to develop a web-based bilingual 
lexicography of the Kalabari language to be used by the speakers, 
especially those in the Diaspora. He also intends to set up study centers 
in the urban centers and organize essay-writing competitions. Ethnologue 
code: [IJN] 

Rosa Vallejos, University of Oregon - Documenting The Language Of The 
Kokama-Kokamilla People 
The purpose of this project is to conduct fieldwork in two Kokama-Kokamilla 
communities in the Peruvian Amazon and to collect text data from some of 
the estimated 1,500 remaining native speakers. Products of the project will 
contribute to ongoing language revitalization efforts and will be available 
to members of the community. [cod] 

Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe, University of Buea - A Reference Grammar Of Barombi 
The Barombi is a language spoken by about 3,000 people in Cameroon. Barombi 
belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Bantu language family, and there 
has not yet been a thorough documentation of the language. This project 
aims at providing the Barombi speakers and any other interested researchers 
with an exhaustive grammatical study of the Barombi language. Atindogbe 
also hopes to clarify the relationship between the Barombi and Bankon 
languages, and between the other Bantu languages of Cameroon. Ethnologue 
code: [BBI] 

John P. Boyle, University of Chicago - Hidatsa Language Documentation and 
Revitalization 
Hidatsa is a Siouan language spoken by about 75 people, almost exclusively 
on the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The researcher will 
develop a package of educational materials to be used by the middle and 
high school programs in Mandaree and New Town, North Dakota. Ethnologue 
code: [HID] 

Jorge Gomez Rendon, University of Amsterdam - Documented Survey of Sia 
Pedee and Development of Basic Teaching Materials 
Sia Pedee (also known as Epera) is a Chocoan language spoken in northern 
Ecuador. Rendon plans to conduct a linguistic and sociolinguistic survey 
and documentation of the language, which will include the development of an 
orthography for the language. He will also make an accurate assessment of 
the number of speakers, currently estimated at 250, and he will examine 
various aspects of the use and viability of the language. Selected 
recordings will be elaborated and incorporated as teaching materials to 
support a pilot bilingual education program. Ethnologue code: [SJA] 

Zelealem Leyew, University of Addis Ababa - Recording the Last Fluent 
Speakers of Kemantney 
The Kemant people live 800 miles northwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 
goal of the research is to document the language by producing a dictionary 
and transcribed texts, which will be made available as a resource to the 
members of the community who are interested in maintaining the use of the 
language. Ethnologue code: [AHG] 

Tyler Peterson, University of British Columbia - Video Documentation of 
Gitksan Narratives: Legends, Life Stories, and My Day 
The Gitksan language is spoken by approximately 50 people in northwestern 
British Columbia, Canada. The researcher will document three specific 
manifestations of narrative form, none of which have been previously 
documented: traditional narratives and legends which have been passed 
through the generations, a story of the significant events of some of the 
speakers' lives, and the use of narratives related to daily living, which 
will reveal how the language has been adapted to express modern-day 
realities. Ethnologue code: [GIT] 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 
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