Documentation of Aro [tei], a Torricelli language of Papua NewGuinea
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
The goal of this project is the documentation of Aro [tei] (which is listed under the name 'Torricelli' in Ethnologue and some other sources). The Aro language is spoken by around 520 people in the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Kombio sub-branch of the Kombio-Arapesh branch of the Torricelli family. Whereas the Arapesh branch of the Kombio-Arapesh branch is well documented, the Kombio branch is underdescribed. This documentation project will result in the first major documentation and book-length description of any language of the Kombio branch.
Primary investigator: Andrey Drinfeld
Project Details
Location: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): The Research Foundation for SUNY at the University at Buffalo
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £40,424.00
Commencement Date: 01/2015
Project Status: Active
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