Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language
The Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language Corpus is a collection of videos of deaf and hearing Inuit of Nunavut in Canada signing in IURInuit Sign Language. The data was collected between 2009 and 2012 by Joke Schuit in the realm of her dissertation project.
The videos consist of unstructered interviews and elicitation tasks like picture drawings or cartoon clips. Recordings were done in private homes and a campus building.
| Language | Inuit Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size | 16.5 hours |
| Participants |
7 participants
4 deaf, 3 hearing 40–65 years 5 male, 2 female 3 regions in Canada: Rankin Inlset, Baker Lake, Taloyoak |
| Metadata Format | Dublin Core in .xls (Microsoft Excel) file, ELAR HTML |
| Translation | English, 6.5 hours |
| Annotation | 2 hours, containing data from all three communities and most of the elicitation tasks |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Restricted access requires confirmed registration |
| Webpages |
Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d007bcf2-4190-4d64-9069-76685a4ff9e6 
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-0214-8
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| Institution | University of Amsterdam |
| Publications | Schuit (2014) |
Cite as
Schuit, Joke. 2010. Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-0214-8. Accessed on [insert date here].
Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
References
Primary references
- Joke Marieke Schuit (2014). "Signs of the arctic: Typological aspects of Inuit Sign Language". Doctoral Thesis. 189 pp.
This entry was last modified on 7 March 2025.