Dusner language

Dusner
Native to West Papua, Indonesia
Region Cenderawasih Bay
Native speakers
 3  (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dsn
Glottolog dusn1237[2]

Dusner is a language spoken in the village of Dusner in the province of Papua, Indonesia. Dusner is highly endangered, and has been reported to have just three remaining speakers.[1][3]

In 2011, researchers from Oxford University's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics began a project to document the vocabulary and grammar of the language, in collaboration with UNIPA (State University of Papua) and UNCEN (Cenderawasih University, Papua).[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Malvern, Jack (21 April 2011). "Last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner nearly wiped out by flood, volcano". The Australian. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dusner". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ "April 21, 2011: articles on the Dusner language, spoken by 3 last speakers. « Sorosoro". SOROSORO: So the languages of the world may live on!. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  4. ↑ Richard Alleyne (2011-04-21). "Oxford University mission to save a language spoken by three people". Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  5. ↑ "Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

External links