Digital Archiving Yami Language Documentation

Der-Hwa Victoria Rau, Providence University, Taiwan

Project Details:

Major Documentation Project. Duration: 2005-2007. £40,600

Project Summary:

The goal of this project is to prepare digital archive materials, with a team from Providence University in Taiwan, to document the Yami language and facilitate preservation and dissemination of the Yami materials collected since 1994 by the principal applicant and her Yami language consultant. In addition to digitally archiving the 20 narratives, reference grammar, trilingual dictionary with 2000 entries, and multimedia pedagogical materials, the principal applicant will also collaborate with the local consultants to document daily conversations, business transactions and festivals/ceremonies.

http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/