Survey, Description and Documentation of Tol (Jicaque) of Honduras

Steffen Haurholm-Larsen, Aarhus University

Project Details:

Small Grant. Duration: 2011-2012. £5,573

Project Summary:

This project has three goals. Firstly, a sociolinguistic survey will be administered aiming to uncover the current state of the Tol language, spoken in Central Honduras. In 1990 the number of speakers was estimated at 250 , and no information exists as to later developments, such as the influence of the dominant contact language Spanish. Secondly, the language will be described and classified, filling out existing gaps left by earlier work. Finally, the foundations will be laid for an audio-visual speech corpus, and an attempt will be made to have speakers produce recordings on their own.