Documentation of Archaic Akha, the register of the shaman

Language	Akha (ISO639-3:ahk), Archaic Akha (ISO639-3:)
Depositor	Jake Terrell
Affiliation	University of Hawai’i
Location	Thailand
Collection ID	0219
Grant ID	SG0010
Funding Body	ELDP
Collection Status	Collection online
Landing Page Handle	http://hdl.handle.net/2196/a17c3a50-ad6d-4204-b6c1-9418a4dee6ff

 

Summary of the collection

This is collection focuses on Archaic Akha, a code which is not mutually intelligible with modern Akha (ISO 639-3: akh). There are about 500,000 speakers of Akha in Burma, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. However, according to community reports, the archaic code is spoken by perhaps only 100 elderly shaman.

This collection, based out of Chiang Rai, Thailand, consists of a corpus of Archaic Akha. It may be used by the community for educational materials, and also serve as the basis for a reference grammar of the language.

 

Group represented

Around 100 shamans of the Akha people, who speak Archaic Akha.

 

Language information

Archaic Akha is not mutually intelligible with modern Akha; it is only spoken by shamans. This language does not yet have an ISO-639 code.

 

Acknowledgement and citation

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

Terrell, Jake. 2017. Documentation of Archaic Akha, the register of the shaman. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B64F-2. Accessed on [insert date here].