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Environment, Language Documentation, Language Change, Language Shift, Language Socialization, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Description, Myth, Music and Languages, Papuan Languages, Political Anthropology, Social Network Analysis, Social Differentiation, Sorcery, Statehood, Sustainability, Torres Strait, Typology, Verbal Art, Visualization and Representation, Anthropological Field Records, Conflict Management, Cultural Geography, Customary Law, Dance, Death and Bereavement, Egalitarianism, Ethnobotany, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Exchanges, Farming Systems, Firewalking, Gardens, Identity, Land Management, Landscape |
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Linguistics Anthropology
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Geographic places |
Melanesia Papua New Guinea Western Province (Fly)
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Historical periods |
21st century Sahul and the prehistory of Melanesia
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Indigenous languages |
Wára, Nama, Arammba, Blafe, Kunja, Guntai |
Experiences |
Field Research (2010 to now) A Grammar of Kómnzo — Australian National University This project will deliver a detailed documentation of Kómnzo, a Papuan language from an almost completely unknown family in Southern New Guinea, plus more basic materials on the surrounding varieties. Kómnzo is spoken by about 200 people in Rouku village in the extreme South-West of Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family (formerly Morehead - Upper Maro). |
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