Blablanga is an endangered Oceanic language with 1150 speakers (2009) on Santa Isabel Island, Solomon Islands. The collection consists of an annotated corpus of digital audio and video materials, covering language use in a variety of social and cultural contexts. Descriptions of main structures have already been made available. A practical orthography has been proposed and, in collaboration with the community, a range of literacy and language maintenance materials are being developed. A full grammar, a Blablanga-English-Pijin (the Solomons variety of Melanesian Pidgin) dictionary and a more specialized publication on intonation and information structure in the language are in preparation.
URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/c24cf9c2-cd8c-44ac-80b7-e1cbf6bf3c60
Recommended Resources
Outreach and Awareness
Outreach and Awareness
Language Diversity and Language Endangerment
Language Diversity and Language Endangerment
Submitted by
ELPPublished on:
Poetry and Literature
Poetry and Literature
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
Language Learning and Teaching
Language Learning and Teaching
Creating Digital Materials
Creating Digital Materials
Submitted by
ELP CommunityPublished on:
video
video
Video
Video
Language Learning and Teaching
Language Learning and Teaching
Submitted by
ELP CommunityPublished on:
video
video
Video
Video
Linguistics
Linguistics
Language Revitalization
Language Revitalization
Language in the Community
Language in the Community
Submitted by
ELP CommunityPublished on:
video
video
Poetry and Literature
Poetry and Literature