This website provides updates on our project on Documenting Endangered Languages: The Case for Awutu. As part of this project, we are collecting original data to create linguistic descriptions and analyses and to provide information about the Awutu Language, Community, and Culture.
From left-to-right: Cassandra Caragine, Dr. Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Nai Whettey, Jack Pruett, Richard Gagnon
We are committed to documenting and creating an archive of the Awutu Language.
From left-to-right: Derick Ofori, Dr. Agyeman Weittey, Cassandra Caragine, Dr. Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Elizabeth Aberdey Banafo, Adjoa Sankofia Quaye, Jack Pruett, Reverend Joseph Okane, James Larbie, Ronald Acquah-Ahin, Richard Gagnon
We strive to help the community revitalize their language by developing literacy materials, an orthographic system, and training community members in linguistic fieldwork.
Our team on an excursion to Kakum National Park
From left-to-right: Dr. Michael Obiri-Yeboah (PI), Jack Pruett, Cassandra Caragine, Richard (Jack) Gagnon; Not Pictured: Sophie Migacz, Derick Ofiri, Adjoa Sankofia Quaye
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation
Title: Language Infrastructure and Training in Fieldwork and Theoretical Linguistics
Grant #: 2450715