Projektnummer

0052489

Zusammenfassung

The project seeks to document the linguistic and cultural knowledge of the speakers of Savosavo, an East Papuan language spoken on Savo Island in the Solomon Islands. There are no closely related languages, and Savosavo is severely threatened by a number of socio-economic factors. Solomon Islands Pijin, the lingua franca of the region, is coming in to replace Savosavo in more and more contexts, reducing it to a home language. The fact that Savo Island, a small island with a diameter of about 6 km, is a dormant volcano and that there is an pending danger of an eruption also poses a thre...