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Lidia Federica Mazzitelli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper provides an introduction to Lakurumau, a previously undescribed and undocumented Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The first part of the paper is a guide to the Lakurumau documentation corpus, deposited in the ELAR archive. The participants and the content of the deposit, the technology used for recording, and the ethical protocols…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Native Language, Language Classification
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Widlok, Thomas – Language Sciences, 2008
Even before it became a common place to assume that "the Eskimo have a hundred words for snow" the languages of hunting and gathering people have played an important role in debates about linguistic relativity concerning geographical ontologies. Evidence from languages of hunter-gatherers has been used in radical relativist challenges to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Language Classification, Vocabulary