Overview
Overview

Okiek Language Documentation Project

 

ummary of the deposit

This is a preliminary Okiek language documentation project. The deposit contains audio and video recordings in a range of genres; conversations, songs, narratives, poems, proverbs and ceremonies associated with circumcision, bee keeping, etc. A good part of the audio / visual corpus is annotated, transcribed and translated into English, one of the official languages of Kenya.

https://www.elararchive.org/dk0412/ (almost complete)

Sponsor

ELDP

Principle Instigator
Prof. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
Abstract

ummary of the deposit

This is a preliminary Okiek language documentation project. The deposit contains audio and video recordings in a range of genres; conversations, songs, narratives, poems, proverbs and ceremonies associated with circumcision, bee keeping, etc. A good part of the audio / visual corpus is annotated, transcribed and translated into English, one of the official languages of Kenya.

status category
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