Ecling endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia Interim report

ECLING Endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia

• Interim report

• 16.4.2003

ECLING Languages

• Tsova-Tush (Batsbi)

• Affiliation: NE-Caucasian, Nakh
• Location: Zemo-Alvani (Tushetia, NE-Georgia)
• Number of speakers: less than 1000, all bilingual with Georgian

ECLING Languages

• Udi

• Affiliation: NE-Caucasian, Lezgian
• Location: Oktomberi (Kakhetia, E-Georgia)
• Number of speakers: less than 200 speakers, all bilingual with Georgian

ECLING Languages

• Svan

• Affiliation: SE-Caucasian (Kartvelian)
• Dialects: Upper-Bal, Lower-Bal, Lashkh, Cholur, Lentekh
• Locations: Svaneti (NW-Georgia), Bolnisi region (S-Georgia)
• Number of speakers: ca. 30,000, all bilingual with Georgian

ECLING Teams

• Frankfurt:

• Jost Gippert
• Manana Tandaschwili
• Svetlana Ahlborn

• Munich:

• Wolfgang Schulze
• Arnd Sölling

ECLING Teams

• Tbilisi: Tsova-Tush team:

• Maia Machavariani
• Bela Shavkhelishvili
• Donanna Dingashvili

• Tbilisi: Svan team:

• Iza Chantladze
• Rusudan Ioseliani
• Medea Saghliani

• Tbilisi: Ethnological advisor:

• Roland Topchishvili

Collected Recordings (as of 31.3.2003)

• Tsova-Tush:

• 5 hrs. video & audio recordings
• digitized by MPI
• IMDI metadata structure provided
• monological texts
• narratives, explanations of every-day life & environment, historical accounts; poetic texts
• 40 texts fully transcribed
• 70 sentences fully analyzed

Collected Recordings (as of 31.3.2003)

• Udi

• 1.2 hrs. video & audio recordings
• digitized by MPI
• IMDI metadata structure provided
• monological & dialogical texts
• narratives, explanations of every-day life & environment, historical accounts
• 3 texts fully transcribed
• 90 sentences fully analyzed

Collected Recordings (as of 31.3.2003)

• Svan

• 7 hrs. video & audio recordings
• 4 hrs. digitized by MPI
• IMDI metadata structure in process
• monological & dialogical texts
• narratives, explanations of every-day life & environment, historical accounts, legends, toasts; musical ballads AVI / MPG
• 5 texts fully transcribed
• 70 sentences fully analyzed

Text transcription and analysis

• Raw transcription (Shoebox format): Svan

Text transcription and analysis

• Linguistic analysis (Shoebox format): Tsova-Tush

Text transcription and analysis

• Basic dictionary (Shoebox format): Svan, Udi

IMDI Data Structure

• General structure: Udi

IMDI Data Structure

• Monological and dialogical data structure: Udi

IMDI Data Structure

• Monological and dialogical data structure: Tsova-Tush

IMDI Data Structure

• Elicitation and non-linguistic data: Tsova-Tush

Publications

• Provisional Project Web Page

• http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/ecling/ecling.htm

• Historical and ethnological description of the Svan speaking areas (R. Topchishvili; manuscript, 99 pp.)

• Svan sample text in:

• Kartvelologiuri krebuli I, Tbilisi 2002, 121-128

Requirements

• IMDI Metadata system:

• Language names for the languages concerned missing in language list

Requirements

• Adaptation of annotation systems to language-specific requirements (Example: Svan)

Requirements

• Adaptation of annotation systems to language-specific requirements (Example: Udi)

Requirements

• Adaptation of annotation systems to code-switching (multilingual speakers; example: Udi) AVI / MPG

Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year):

• Tsova-Tush:
• Dialogical texts
• Recordings in natural environment
• Elicitation of special terminology

Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year):

• Udi:
• Dialogical texts
• Historical texts
• Elicitation of special terminology

Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year):

• Svan:
• Extension of dialectal basis (Cholur)
• Recordings in traditional environment (Upper / Lower Svanetia)
• Elicitation of special terminology