The Language of the Week has been on hold for some time now, sorry about that.
This week’s language is Ulithian. It is spoken by abot 3,000 people on Ulithi atoll and is one of the 6 official languages of the Federated States of Micronesia. View Map Here are some resources:
The wiki page, which is more [...]
This week’s language was going to be Tsafiki, a Barbacoan language with a fantastic documentation project run by Connie Dickinson. However … the main page for the site is a link that goes here. The ISP was taken over and the link no longer works, and I haven’t been able to find out if there’s [...]
The speakers of this week’s minority language really have a web presence. There is a great deal of information about Saami on the web, as well as pages in Saami.
I’m cheating a bit with calling the language of the week Saami, since there are at least 11 main varieties and many are not mutually intelligible [...]
Several languages of the week (including Rotokas) have been from the area which was recently affected by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. I haven’t been able to find out what the damage is in areas apart from the Solomon Islands. Peter Austin has a post at ELAC which includes a report from one of his [...]
We’re back to Bougainville for this week’s language. Rotokas is a Papuan language spoken by about 4300 people.
Rotokas has a very small phoneme inventory: one of the smallest in the world in fact. However, this fact seems to have morphed into “the world’s smallest alphabet” in online sources. this is because there seems to be [...]
Now that I have submitted my field methods book and am no longer spending every spare minute cutting words from it, I’ll be trying to get back to weekly language features. (Unfortunately, all that cutting has caused my tendinitis flare up. Assume that weird stuff in blog postings is likely to be the result of [...]
This week’s language is the first I ever did any “fieldwork” on. It was the field methods language when I first took field methods in 1997, when I was a third year undergrad at ANU. Sasha Aikhenvald was in charge of the class.
Petats is an Austronesian language. It’s a member of the Oceanic subgroup and [...]
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