A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation

Salffner, Sophie

Abstract

Language documentation collections contain valuable and unique resources on the languages and cultures of the people represented in the collection. To allow users to understand and use one particular collection, this article provides a guide to the language documentation project “Farming, food and yam: language and cultural practices among Ikaan speakers,” deposited in the Endangered Languages Archive. It gives a bird’s eye view of the collection, showing the project background, the conventions and workflows, and the structure and content of the resources. In addition, it provides a glimpse behind the scene, outlining motivations, observations, thoughts on the collection, and future plans. This article thus contextualizes the collection by placing it in its wider research and community context.

Citation

Salffner, S. (2015). A Guide to the Ikaan Language and Culture Documentation. Language Documentation & Conservation, 9, 237-267

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 25, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 17, 2019
• Journal: Language Documentation and Conservation
• Print ISSN: 1934-5275
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 237-267
• Keywords: language documentation, Nigeria, Ikaan, yam
• Publisher URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24639
• Related Public URLs: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24639
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