Projektnummer

0055945

Zusammenfassung

The project aims at documenting Akie, a highly endangered Kalenjin language (Southern Nilotic , Nilo-Saharan), which is virtually unknown. Akie is spoken by hunter-gatherers in three villages of northern Tanzania, where they live among the Maa (Eastern Nilotic pastoralists, Nilo-Saharan) with whom they have largely merged culturally and linguistically. Among the approximately 2,500 Akie people, there are roughly 80 adults (plus an unknown number of children) left who still speak the language to some extent. Recently, Akie has undergone growing influence of the national language of Tan...