Field research in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create multimedia collection of endangered languages. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) housed at the library of SOAS University of London.
This project involves the continuation of field research that has already begun on two languages in Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea. The primary goals of the project are twofold: to complete a detailed grammatical description and dictionary of Walman, a language of the Torricelli phylum; and to complete a short dictionary and a publishable grammatical sketch of Poko-Rawo, a language in the Sko phylum.
Primary investigator: Matthew Dryer
Project Details
Location: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University at Buffalo
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £76,152.00
Commencement Date: 01/1999
Project owner? Update this project
