Projektnummer

0053181

Zusammenfassung

The project spearheads the documentation of the highly endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer, Austroasiatic) languages and indigenous knowledge of the "Negrito" Semang foragers of the Malay Peninsula. Inhabiting the rapidly shrinking equatorial rainforest, the Semang represent some of the last human societies to pursue a hunting-gathering existence in this environment. They preserve unique knowledge about the forest and how to make a sustainable livelihood from it. This close relationship with the forest is manifest in their languages, which display a huge lexicon relating to the environment, i...