PNG website

[Malcolm Ross]

René van den Berg (r.vandenberg at sil.org.pg) has asked me to post this  
notice to the list. Please address any enquiries to him.

Malcolm Ross
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Dear linguists,

SIL PNG is happy to announce its new website:

http://www.pnglanguages.org/
This site provides information and materials on many of the 800+  
languages of PNG, about 25% of which are Austronesian. In many cases  
the materials have been previously published, but unpublished  
archived and unedited studies and reports are also made available  
here. We believe it is appropriate for even incomplete and dated  
analyses to be made available, but in such cases the reader is made  
aware of the tentative nature of the research.
At this moment the site contains:

basic phonological descriptions for over 300 languages;
published linguistic studies from the SIL publication Data Papers on  
Papua New Guinea languages;
unpublished grammatical studies (Adzera, Binandere, Binumarien,  
Kamasau and Waffa);
published dictionaries (Nehan);
unpublished dictionaries (Girawa, Kamasau);
coloured language maps for each province;
the SIL bibliographies 1956-1990 and 2001-2003.
We expect this site to expand as more materials become available  
electronically. There is much valuable material stored in the SIL  
archives in Ukarumpa, but it will take years to process everything  
for web presentation.
If you would like to see materials on a particular language made  
available, please let us know. We will do what we can with what we  
have, but obviously this will take time. We are also interested in  
your comments and suggestions regarding the website. Please address  
all your correspondence to LR‑DATS at sil.org.pg
We trust this will be a helpful resource for linguists worldwide.

René van den Berg
website content manager



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