Projektnummer

0053992

Zusammenfassung

Papua New Guinea hosts over 800 different languages and is well known for its great linguistic diversity. Throughout much of Papua New Guinea, shift to the dominant languages English and Pidgin is well under way and many languages are already severely threatened. Target of this documentation project are Saliba and Logea, two Western Oceanic languages of the Papuan Tip cluster spoken in Milne Bay Province (estimated number of speakers 2,500). The project started in 2004. The planned second phase builds on the achievements of the first phase and on the infrastructure the project has set ...