The Simbali Baining of Papua New Guinea: A community-based documentation project
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 Simbali Baining are a community of around 450 people (Carter et al. 2012), living in the southern part of the Gazelle Peninsula (ENBP, Papua New Guinea). The documentation of the as yet totally undocumented Simbali language will be based on combining two complementary approaches. On the one hand, it will consist of a broad variety of registers and genres identified as most relevant by the community. And on the other hand, it will pay special attention to two registers that are especially prone to endangerment: speakers' ethnobiological knowledge and the language used by and with children. |
Project Details
Location: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): Universitat zu Köln
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 201,937.00 EUR
Commencement Date: 10/2022
Project Status: Active
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