LDC: Australia and Oceania
And another Linguistic Diversity Challenge! This time, we focus on the languages of Australia and Oceania, including New Guinea:
To participate in this challenge, you have to learn and post about 7 languages spoken in Australia, New Guinea or Oceania, one language per day. If you accept the challenge, please tag your post as #linguisticdiversitychallenge so that others can see what you wrote and learn something new as well! Here are some suggestions for what kind of information to look for:
What is the language called in English and the language itself?
Where is the language spoken?
How many people speak the language? Is it endangered?
Which language family does it belong to? What are some of its relative languages?
What writing system does the language use?
What kind of grammatical features does the language have? What is its typological profile?
What does the language sound like?
What do you personally find interesting about the language?
Here are some websites to help you find information: Wikipedia, Omniglot, Glottolog, WALS, Phoible, ODIN, OLAC, Endangered Languages Project, AIATSIS, and PARADISEC. You can also use Youtube to search for videos and music in the language to find out what it sounds like when spoken.
