Documentation of archaic Akha, the register of the Akha shaman

Category: Projects funded by the World Oral Literature Project

A project to build a corpus of the religious register of the Akha shaman and to train four native-speaking Akha in language documentation and ethnographic fieldwork methods.

Field workers: Jake Terrell (Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). Grant: $9,520.
Status: finalisation of materials underway.