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LIVING TONGUES
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Danielle Barth
Matukar Panau Project 2010-2011
Danielle
Barth was appointed Living Tongues
Institute Fellow in 2010. She spent
several months living and working in
Matukar assisting in the Matukar Talking
Dictionary and Online Grammar Project.
She is returning to Matukar in 2011 for
another field session where more details
of the grammar will be worked out and
more forms and media content for the
Talking Dictionary will be collected,
serving as assistant to the
Matukar
Project leader
Rudolf Raward. Danielle
is currently an advanced graduate
student in the Department of
Linguistics, University of Oregon. |
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Danielle Barth
demonstrates how not to split a coconut! |
Institute
Fellow Danielle Barth working in Matukar
village working with Cathy (background)
and Kadagoi Rawad (foreground) |
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Danielle Barth interviews Kadagoi Rawad,
Matukar village as Tom Kreno looks on |
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Anna Pucilowski
Ho Language Project 2008-2009
Anna
Pucilowski was the first Living
Tongues Institute Fellow appointed
in 2008. During 2008-2009, she
coordinated and executed the second
and most comprehensive stage of the
Ho Talking Dictionary and Online
Grammar Project, working closely
with members of the Ho speaking
community of Jharkhand. She has
presented and published a range of
studies on the Ho language. Anna is
an advanced graduate student in the
Linguistics Department, University
of Oregon. She is currently working
on her Ph.D. on the Ho verbal
system.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/langhotspots/Ho/index.html
Genographic_Ho_Project_Interim_sm.pdf
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Institute Fellow Anna
Pucilowski at work in Ranchi, Jharkhand
on the Ho Talking Dictionary, 2008
Photo by Ganesh Murmu |
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Part of
the Ho project team (from left: ) 2008
Photo by Anna Pucilowski |
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Don Daniels
Panim Language Project 2010
Don Daniels
began his work as a Living Tongues
Institute Fellow in 2010. An expert in
the endangered Papuan languages of
Madang Province in Papua New Guinea, Don
has done extensive work on the
critically endangered languages of the Sogeram family. As an Institute Fellow,
Don has developed the
Panim
Language
Project – a multi-pronged effort to
document the poorly known Panim language
of the Mabuso family spoken by a few
hundred people in and around the village
of Panim, Madang Province, PNG. Living
Tongues Institute will be developing a
dictionary and grammatical materials on
the Panim language in the coming years.
Don is currently an advanced graduate
student at University of California,
Santa Barbara, where he is completing
his PhD on the Sogeram language family. |
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