Documentation of five Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Jean-Christophe Verstraete, University of Leuven

Project Details:

Major Documentation Project. Duration: 2006-2009. £79,750

Project Summary:

The aim of the project is to document five highly endangered Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula (Australia): Kugu Muminh, Kuku Thaypan, Umbuygamu, Umpila and Wik Ngathan. The project is a team effort of five people with prior research experience on these languages, who want to pool knowledge and resources to document them as thoroughly as possible with the last generation of speakers. Our central goal is to produce an extensive representative corpus of texts, which will form a valuable resource for the communities involved, and will serve as the basis for further descriptive and community-oriented work.

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