Projektnummer

0053174

Zusammenfassung

Linguistically, the island of New Guinea is the most diverse region on the planet. The western part of the island politically belongs to the Republic of Indonesia. A majority of the approximately 270 languages spoken in this area are endangered. The project proposed here is designed to realize an exemplary documentation of Woi, one of the highly endangered Austronesian languages of the area. Woi is spoken primarily at the western tip of the island of Yapen, north of the mainland. Woi and neighboring groups practice a very unique indigenous form of conflict resolution including ritualiz...