Projektnummer

0054032

Zusammenfassung

Fewer than one hundred Iwaidja speakers remain, and even this figure includes many who have an attenuated knowledge of their language. The steady and remorseless death of senior speakers has been sweeping away much unique knowledge encoded in the languages of the Coburg region, Northern Territory, Australia. For this reason, working as much as possible with these last speakers while they remain alive is imperative, and motivates the continuation of primary language data collection. Iwaidja is a language of specific linguistic interest which at the same time poses significant difficulti...