The Chatino Language Documentation Project: Some Outcomes
The Chatino Language Documentation Project: Some Outcomes
Presented by:
Anthony C. Woodbury University of Texas at Austin
Description:
This project has followed a model where local language activism and training have been driving forces in the slow,
'organic' growth of a large scale effort to document and describe a family of Otomanguean languages in Oaxaca, Mexico.
It began in 2003 when two speakers of a Chatino language became Texas graduate students and now covers all the
languages and includes seven students as well as senior collaborators and local trainees and preceptors. Our products
--which we are now preparing for archiving as a three-year ELDP project comes to an end--have emerged both by design
and by accident. They in training courses, literacy materials, audio- and video-archives, analyses of unusual tonal
systems involving up to thirteen contrastive tones, historical studies of Chatino diversification, the identification
of ancient Mesoamerican traditions of poetic parallelism in village political oratory as well as everyday speech, and
lexical studies of language and land in one sprawling Chatino municipio.
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