Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project
The Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project [ASLEP] is
a multi-media documentation project on the endangered
languages and cultures of the Turkic-speaking populations of
the Altai-Sayan cultural and geographic complex. The results
from this project are housed under the heading ‘Tofa’ under
the DoBeS
Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen program funded by
Volkswagen Stiftung (through a grant to Dr. K. David
Harrison).
Languages
investigated and recorded in annotated media include Todzhu,
Dukha, Tsengel, Monchak, and Tofa, the latter with fewer
than 30 speakers now.
The Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project has several
facets. One is the documentation of the endangered languages
and traditional knowledge of the Altai-Sayan region, in
particular that of the Tofa, and to a lesser extent those of
the Todzhu, Dukha, Tsengel Tuvan, and Monchak.
In addition to hours of
annotated video sessions in multiple languages housed in the
DoBeS archive at Nijmegen, Netherlands, ASLEP has produced a
children’s reader, a Talking Online Tuvan Dictionary,
numerous papers on a range of topics, and data from ASLEP
has figured prominently in books such as When Languages Die
by David Harrison, and Auxiliary Verb Constructions by Greg
Anderson
Map of
Altai-Sayan Languages
Sound Files from ASLEP
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Video Files from ASLEP
Photos from ASLEP
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Pavel Ungushtaev, Tofa language consultant
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Albert Tuleev, Tofa language consultant |
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Tsengel Tuvan language consultant |
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Marta Kongaraeva, primary Tofa language consultant |
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Last Tofa reindeer? |
Some Publications from ASLEP
Talking Online Tuvan Dictionary
Photo credits: David Harrison, Greg Anderson, Thomas
Hegenbart |
