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Ninde documentation and orthographic design project

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documenting Northwest Malekula: A Comparative Study of V’ënen Taut, Tape, and Tirax (Malekula, Vanuatu).

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documentation and description of Bitur, a Tirio language of Papua New Guinea, and preliminary investigation of the moribund Abom language

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documenting Nalögo, an Oceanic language of Santa Cruz Island

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Black Sand Stories: a polysemiotic and multimodal documentation of Paamese sand stories, a critically endangered cultural tradition of Vanuatu.

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Projects in Melanesia

Ninde documentation and orthographic design project

Documenting Northwest Malekula: A Comparative Study of V’ënen Taut, Tape, and Tirax (Malekula, Vanuatu).

Documentation and description of Bitur, a Tirio language of Papua New Guinea, and preliminary investigation of the moribund Abom language

Documenting Nalögo, an Oceanic language of Santa Cruz Island

Black Sand Stories: a polysemiotic and multimodal documentation of Paamese sand stories, a critically endangered cultural tradition of Vanuatu.

Gildipasi Language Project: Tumbuna Stories and Tumbuna Knowledge

Maeaka Tohana Knowledge Book Phase 2

Documenting speech and language practices in Eton