Documentation of Kayardild
Language: Kayardild
Depositor: Erich Round
Location: Australia
Summary of deposit
The Kayardild language is spoken on Bentinck and Mornington Islands, Queensland, Australia. Kayardild is the last language of the Tangkic language family to be spoken. The projects (see Deposit history below) recorded and documented texts, elicitation sessions, and traditional food gathering activities by the last speakers to be well versed in traditional knowledge.Deposit contents
The documentation consists of about 500 files, including audio, video, ELAN transcription files, and summary metadata.Deposit history
This deposit is the result of two ELDP-funded projects, FTG0025 "A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations" (applicant Louis Goldstein, Yale University) and IGS 0039 "Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of Kayardild" (applicant Erich Round, Yale University). The results of the two projects are complementary and have been combined in one deposit to maximise the coherence and accessibility of the documentation.Basic info
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Documentation period:
28/06/2005 - 03/07/2007
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
Summary of content:
Audio (wav) and video (mpeg4) recordings of texts, elicitation sessions, and traditional food gathering activities. ELAN transcription files, summary metadata.
Group represented:
Kaiadilt
Location:
Bentinck and Mornington Islands, QLD Australia
Language name:
Kayardild
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Catalogue description:
... recordings of texts, elicitation, and traditional food gathering by the last speakers well versed in the traditional knowledge of Kayardild, Queensland.
Summary of deposit:
The Kayardild language is spoken on Bentinck and Mornington Islands, Queensland, Australia. Kayardild is the last language of the Tangkic language family to be spoken. The projects (see Deposit history below) recorded and documented texts, elicitation sessions, and traditional food gathering activities by the last speakers to be well versed in traditional knowledge.
Deposit contents:
The documentation consists of about 500 files, including audio, video, ELAN transcription files, and summary metadata.
Deposit history:
This deposit is the result of two ELDP-funded projects, FTG0025 "A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations" (applicant Louis Goldstein, Yale University) and IGS 0039 "Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of Kayardild" (applicant Erich Round, Yale University). The results of the two projects are complementary and have been combined in one deposit to maximise the coherence and accessibility of the documentation.
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16° 36' 14.0688" S, 139° 24' 1.4076" E
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