<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi folks, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just sharing a message from Kereni Sparks Ngenge from Vanuatu/PNG about the endangered language of Lou Island in PNG. If anyone has worked on the Lou language of the Manus Province or knows someone who has, can you please get in contact with Kireni who is very keen to collaborate with linguists on her language [<a href="mailto:kirxsn@gmail.com" class="">email: kirxsn@gmail.com</a>]. Please follow the links below to videos created by Kireni to learn more:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://actnowpng.org/node/26165">https://actnowpng.org/node/26165</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""></p><p style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Bislama version (with an English summary below the link):<br class=""></p><p style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBv1Cv5AxYA" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBv1Cv5AxYA</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><u class="">Holem Taet Lanwis</u></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hello, my name is Kireni Sparks-Ngenge. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">My father is from Lou Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). I was born in PNG and grew up living between Madang, PNG, and Vanuatu. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I also always visited Lou Island and I have made this video because I am concerned that my island’s indigenous language is on the dangerous path towards becoming endangered – many parents are no longer speaking the language to their child</p><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBv1Cv5AxYA" moz-do-not-send="true" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBv1Cv5AxYA</a></div></div><div class=""><p style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""><i class="">Holim Pas Tok Ples</i><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">By Kireni Sparks-Ngenge</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Halo, nem blong mi em i Kireni Sparks-Ngenge.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Papa blong mi kamaut long Lou Ailan long Manus Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Mi bon lo PNG na bikpla long Madang, PNG, na long Vanuatu.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mi save visitim ples blong mi olgeta taim tu na dispela vidio mi wokim blong wanem mi wari lo tokples blong Lou em I wok long go daun – planti mama papa no wok long tokples gen long ol pikinini blong ol.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Holim Pas Tok Ples</u> i laik kirapim tingting blong yumi long Lou Ailan na long ol narapla hap long PNG na Melenisia blong yumi mas lukautim tokples na givim gen long ol pikinini blong yumi.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Insait long dispela vidio bai yumi harim stori blong ol Cowichan, wanpla traib blong ol asples long Canada we klostu tokples blong ol i laik dai. Wanem toktok bai ol Cowichan oli laik givim long yumi long sait blong tokples?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dispela vidio i lukluk long ol tingting raunim tokples: blong wanem ol tok ples blong yumi oli impoten, olsem wanem tokples em i konekt wantaim tumbuna graun blong yumi na halivim yumi blong holim pas graun blong yumi, olsem wanem wanpla tokples i ken dai, na olsem wanem bai yumi holim pas tokples.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Olsem bai yu lukim long vidio, em i no hadpla samting blong holim pas tok ples blong yumi: rot blong en em long toktok tasol long tok ples blong yumi.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Lato; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mi hop olsem dispela vidio bai halivim yumi olgeta we yumi lukim blong Holim Pas Tok Ples.</p></div></body></html>