The Documentation of Bark-cloth making: An endangered cultural activity among the Baganda

 

Language	Kurtöp, Zhake
Depositor	Gwendolyn Hyslop
Affiliation	Australian National University
Location	Bhutan
Deposit ID	0179
Grant ID	IGS0049
Funding Body	ELDP
Collection Status	Collection online

 

Summary of the deposit

This collection is one of the first documentation efforts of Kurtöp, an endangered language of Lhüntse, Bhutan. It includes audio and video files of the language as spoken by its speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences between November 2005 to January 2009. The audio and video files comprise of conversations, interviews, narratives, storytelling, singing and elicitation, including files used for acoustic study.

The various foci of the recordings include historical information, religion, storytelling, agriculture, local culture, ceremony and flaura and fauna. In addition, over one thousand photographs accompany the recordings.

 

Group represented

Kurtöp

 

Acknowledgement and citation

Data collected by G. Hyslop and K. Tshering.

To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:

Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2005. Kurtöp language documentation in Bhutan. London: SOAS University of London, Endangered Languages Archive. Handle:  http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0009-4C2F-E. Accessed on [insert date here].