Breathing new life into legacy materials: Research on and repatriation of a Sáliba collection

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Rosés Labrada, Jorge Emilio

• The overarching aim of this three-year project is, then, the creation of the first-ever time-aligned and annotated corpus of naturally occurring Sáliba speech—based on rich but up-to-now unused data collected in 1968 with fluent monolingual and bilingual Sáliba speakers by Colombian linguist Jon Landaburu, who will serve as a consulting expert for this project. Given the small number of remaining fluent speakers and their advanced age—coupled with the fact that the Landaburu is now retired and elderly, it is vital that this project be done now while we still have access to speakers who may be able to understand some of the cultural content of the materials, as well as to the original researcher who can help contextualize the data. This project is timely and addresses the Horizons Future Challenge Area “Erosion of Culture and History,” which emphasizes the close link between language, identity, and cultural resilience; it has the potential to contribute in meaningful ways to reconciliation, in part because it incorporates a significant knowledge mobilization component alongside language revitalization.

• Date created

  2021-09-08

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Indigenous languages
  • language documentation
  • Sáliban languages
  • legacy materials
  • language revitalization
  • repatriation
  • collaboration
  • SSHRC
  • Insight Grant
  • Successful Grant

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-4zck-jx72

• License

  Copyright Jorge Emilio Roses Labrada. Embargoed until December 31, 2026.