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Music

Specialized vocal techniques practiced in the Altai-Sayan, incluiding varieties of 'throat' or 'overtone' singing, sound mimesis, hunting calls, shamanic chanting and singing, buddhist chanting, folksongs, animal domestication songs, and other genres. Special technical transcriptions included.

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Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-3F6C-E
Description: The Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project is engaged in documenting several indigenous languages of southern Siberia and Western Mongolia (a geographic area defined by the Sayan mountain range within the larger Altai mountain range). Project members work within various disciplines, including Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnography, and Musicology. Our goal is to document the entire cultural complex associated with endagered languages of the region: Tofa, Tuha (Dukha), Altai and Xakas. We also work on non-endangered languages of the region (Tsengel Tuvan and Tuvan) to document special genres, folklore and music. Finally, we work to support community initiatives for language preservatuion and revitalization, including the production of dictionaries, books, and multi-media materials for the use of local communities that have previously not had access to such resources. We also train community members in linguistic data colleciton, analysis and pedagogy

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- History : NAME:imdi2cmdi.xslt DATE:2016-09-09T16:22:18.476+02:00.
- Name : Tofa team
- Title : Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project
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  Description : The Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project is engaged in documenting several indigenous languages of southern Siberia and Western Mongolia (a geographic area defined by the Sayan mountain range within the larger Altai mountain range). Project members work within various disciplines, including Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnography, and Musicology. Our goal is to document the entire cultural complex associated with endagered languages of the region: Tofa, Tuha (Dukha), Altai and Xakas. We also work on non-endangered languages of the region (Tsengel Tuvan and Tuvan) to document special genres, folklore and music. Finally, we work to support community initiatives for language preservatuion and revitalization, including the production of dictionaries, books, and multi-media materials for the use of local communities that have previously not had access to such resources. We also train community members in linguistic data colleciton, analysis and pedagogy
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  Description : Tsengel-Tuvan: A Turkic language of Western Mongolia (Olgiy province), mutually comprehensible with Tuvan, spoken by a community of about 1,200 hundred pastoral nomads.
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  Description : The Todzhu people are ethno-culturally distinct and speak a recognizably different variety of Tuvan. The number of Todzhu (dialect) speakers has not been accurately assessed, there is social pressure to shift over to with standard Tuvan.
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  Description : Tofa: A Turkic language of south central Siberia, Tofa is spoken by about 35 to 40 persons out of a total ethnic community of about 500 persons. Tofa is severely endangered and moribund
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  Description : Overview of the corpus structure (gif image).
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Citation

Grawunder, Harrison, Brian Donahoe, K. David Harrison, David Harrison, Greg Anderson, Harrison, and Donahoe. (1996 - 2002). Collection "Tofa team". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-3F6C-E. (Accessed 2023-10-04)

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