ELDP to fund project for Joshua Wilbur to document the Pite Saami language
Pite Saami Documentation Project (PSDP): Documentation and lexicography of semi-nomadic and sedentary Pite Saami lifestyles
Joshua Wilbur documenting the slaughtering of a reindeer
The Pite Saami language, also known as Arjeplog Saami, is spoken by around 30 mostly elderly speakers from the Arjeplog municipality in Swedish Lapland. Due to the dominance of Swedish language, culture and politics in most aspects of everyday life, the Pite Saami language as well as traditional Pite Saami realms of experience are highly endangered. This project shall create a multimedia documentation of traditional ways of life of both semi-nomadic reindeer herders and sedentary Pite Saami families, and produce on-line lexical materials concerning these traditional realms.
The present project builds on and continues the former Pite Saami Documentation Project (PSDP) carried out at the Humboldt University Berlin during 2008–2011. Both the old and the new project are part of the Endangered Languages Documentation Project at SOAS in London.
Currently, Joshua Wilbur is finishing his PhD in General Linguistics at the University of Kiel; his dissertation project includes a sketch grammar and an annotated spoken language documentation corpus of the Pite Saami language.
The project in Freiburg starts in January 2013. Project duration will be two years.
Common portal for the Saami linguistics projects in Freiburg
Kontakt: Joshua Wilbur
Besuch von der norwegischen Schriftstellerin Trude Teige