More on RapaNui

[Nicholas Ostler]

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:48:10 -0500
From: "Bob-Nancy Weber"<bob-nancy_weber at sil.org>
To: <nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk>
Subject: (Fwd) ELL: Rapanui researcher needed


Dear Dr. Ostler,

Thank you for your kind reply. We agree completely with you on the

impossibility of one team alone being able to do justice to any
language. On 2001/03/20 I sent the message forwarded below to the
Endangered Languages List. If you wish, you may forward the letter to
the other addresses you mentioned.

All the best,
Bob Weber
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)


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Subject: (Fwd) ELL: Rapanui researcher needed
Author:  Bob-Nancy Weber at OSI
Date:    2001/03/20 10:26


Dear Endangered Languages Listers:

Since 1977, the Universidad Cat¢lica de ValparaÁso, Chile and SIL
International have colaborated in a joint project of Rapa Nui
linguistic research, textbook and literature development, teacher

training, literacy, and translation of the Christian scriptures. My
wife, Nancy, and I reside on Easter Island and are the principal

linguists for this project, known as the "Programa Lengua Rapa Nui".
Sociolinguist, Luis G¢mez Macker, and others of the university on the
mainland have at times also been involved. Although there still
remains much to do, much has been accomplished during the past
twenty-four years.

I must add that we are by no means the only linguists who have studied
Rapa Nui, nor the only ones with current interest in the language. We
are, however, about the only linguists who are doing anything of an
applied nature, in addition to language analysis and description.

If we can be of assistance to anyone interested in the Rapa Nui
language, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Sincerely yours,

Bob Weber, B.A., M.A. Linguistics
Nancy Weber, B.A., M.A. Linguistics
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