Principal participants Principal researcher: Eva Agnes Csato, also David Nathan, multimedia language applications, and Karina Firkaviciute, native speaker of Karaim, scholar of Karaim music. List of other participants Eva Agnes Csato To Eva Agnes Csato's web page Senior lecturer of Turkic languages at the Uppsala University. From September 1997 - March 1998, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Studies of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. Previously, research fellow at the Linguistics Department, University of Cologne, Germany Relevant competence: Karaim language, Turcology, linguistics, field research on spoken Karaim in the framework of the project "Typologische Besonderheiten des modernen Karaimischen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der aspektotemporalen Kategorien" financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (with Hans-Jürgen Sasse) and carried out between 1994 and 1997. Addresses Until March 31, 1998: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 4-51-21 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114 Japan Office vox: +81-3-5974 3739 Office fax: +81-3-5974 3838 Email: johanson@aa.tufs.ac.jp Web page: access from http:// www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifs/pages/e_frame.htm From April 1, 1998: Department of African and Asian Languages Uppsala University Box 512, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden Home: Backhaushohl 10 D-55128 Mainz Vox: +49 6131 368125 Fax: +49 6131 368662 E-mail: johanson@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de David Nathan David Nathan's web page Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, and Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Relevant competence: Computer linguistics, use of multimedia for helping revitalisation of endangered Australian Indigenous Languages. Addresses Until September 30, 1998: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 4-51-21 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114 Japan Tel: +81-3-5974 3720 Fax: +81-3-5974 3838 Email: djn@aa.tufs.ac.jp Web page: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~djn/index.html Karina Firkaviciute Karina Firkaviciute is the project representative for the Karaim community of Vilnius, Lithuania Relevant competence: native speaker of Karaim, musicologist, researcher of Karaim liturgical music Karina Firkaviciute graduated as a Master of Arts from the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1995. For her thesis on "The liturgical chant of Lithuanian Karaims" she was awarded a grant from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. A postgraduate student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, she has also worked since 1997 at the Composers Union of Lithuania, and gives lectures on Oriental music at the Department of Oriental studies in the University of Vilnius. She has participated at many conferences in Lithuania and abroad and has given talks on the following subjects: 13th Symposium of Young Musicologists in Bratislava, Slovakia: "The liturgical chant of Lithuanian Karaims". 39th Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Szeged, Hungary: "The songs and chant of Karaims". International Conference on The situation in music culture of the independant Lithuania, in Vilnius, Lithuania: "Lithuanian discoveries: another music". International Conference on Religious Music in Siauliai, Lithuania: "Some methods and problems of incestigation of liturgical monody". Karina has worked as a journalist and published many scholarly articles as well as in Lithuanian newspapers and journals. Her publications include: Karaimu muzikine kultura [The musical culture of Karaims], in: "Krantai" 1989/12. Is karaimu apeigines tautosakos [From the ritual folklore of the Karaims], in: Tautosakos darbai I (VIII) Vilnius, Academia, 1992. Karaimu muzika Lietuvoje [The music of Karaims in Lithuania], in: "Gama", 1993, N.2. Apie Lietuvos karaimu liturgines giesmes [On the liturgical chant of Karaims of Lithuania, in: "Gama", 1994, N7-8. Lietuvos atodangos: kita muzika [Lithuanian discoveries: another music], In: Muzikos kulturos situacija nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje. Vilnius: Margi rastai, 1996. Forthcoming. A Panasiatic conception of music and music tradition of Lithuanian Karaims. (Editor) "I Trakus pauksciu plasnosiu", Vilnius: Danielius, 1997 (An anthology of Karaim poetry) Other participants Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Sasse To Prof Sasse's web page Linguistics Department, University of Cologne, Germany. Supervisor of the project "Typologische Besonderheiten des modernen Karaimischen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der aspektotemporalen Kategorien" financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and carried out by Eva Agnes Csato between 1994 and 1997. Relevant competence: Documentation of endangered languages, linguistics Address Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität zu Köln (Cologne) 50923 Köln Germany Vox: +49 221 470 2323 Fax: (0221) 470 5158 Email: am000@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de Prof. Dr. Lars Johanson To Prof Johanson's Turkology web site Institute of Oriental Studies, University Mainz. Currently Visiting Professor at at the Institute for the Studies of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. Lars Johanson participated as advisor in the project "Typologische Besonderheiten des modernen Karaimischen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der aspektotemporalen Kategorien" financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and carried out between 1994 and 1997. Relevant competence: comparative Turcology, contact linguistics. Email: johanson@aa.tufs.ac.jp

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The Karaim community

The Karaim language

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