ECLING Endangered Caucasian Languages in Georgia

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ECLINGEndangered Caucasian Languagesin Georgia

• Interim report
• 16.4.2003

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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

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ECLING Languages

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

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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

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ECLING Teams

• Frankfurt
• Jost Gippert
• Manana Tandaschwili
• Svetlana Ahlborn
• Munich
• Wolfgang Schulze
• Arnd Sölling

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Text transcription and analysis

• Raw transcription (Shoebox format) Svan

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Text transcription and analysis

• Linguistic analysis (Shoebox format) Tsova-Tush

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Text transcription and analysis

• Basic dictionary (Shoebox format) Svan, Udi

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IMDI Data Structure

• General structure Udi

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IMDI Data Structure

• Monological and dialogical data structure Udi

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IMDI Data Structure

• Monological and dialogical data structure
  Tsova-Tush

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IMDI Data Structure

• Elicitation and non-linguistic data Tsova-Tush

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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

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Requirements

• IMDI Metadata system
• Language names for the languages concerned
  missing in language list

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Requirements

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

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Requirements

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

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Requirements

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

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Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year)
• Tsova-Tush
• Dialogical texts
• Recordings in natural environment
• Elicitation of special terminology

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Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year)
• Udi
• Dialogical texts
• Historical texts
• Elicitation of special terminology

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Prospects

• Material to be recorded (2nd year)
• Svan
• Extension of dialectal basis (Cholur)
• Recordings in traditional environment (Upper /
  Lower Svanetia)
• Elicitation of special terminology