Endangered Languages Projects
The following projects include the documentation of the Kuna language: - Documentation and description of Kuna: a community-based approach to documentation and grammar-writing.
- Wikaliler Smith, University of Texas at Austin. 2009-2012.
This project is a response to the limited documentation and description available to the
community members of Kuna, a Chibchan language spoken mostly in the Panamanian-Colombian
border area, with an estimated 44,100 speakers. It seeks to document instances of naturally
occurring speech in Kuna and to process new and old recordings making them available to the
community. In addition to the new material produced, the project will produce a comprehensive
grammar of the language, with an ... more - Documentation and description of Kuna: a community-based approach to documentation and grammar-writing.
- Wikaliler Smith, University of Texas at Austin. 2009-2011.
This project is a response to the limited documentation and description available to the
community members of Kuna, a Chibchan language spoken mostly in the Panamanian-Colombian
border area, with an estimated 44,100 speakers. It seeks to document instances of naturally
occurring speech in Kuna and to process new and old recordings making them available to the
community. In addition to the new material produced, the project will produce a comprehensive
grammar of the language, with an ... more
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