Okay so i would like to learn my ancestral languages, 3 of which are official languages of at least one country, and therefore somewhat well documented (swedish, german, and tok pisin). However, there is one other language that is only spoken in a remote region of the New Ireland district of Papua New Guinea, with an estimated native speaking population of ~5,000, spoken within 17 villages on the island.
There is a small amount of information about it on wikipedia, and there is a single english translation dictionary, and the author wrote his linguistics doctorate thesis on it, however many of the terms and other things are confusing and i get lost in it incredibly easily because of that.
I unfortunately do not have any connections to people living within the region as my family moved to another province in the 1940s, then to australian (where i am) in the 70s, so i cannot ask any native speakers as i don't have contact. I visited the region in January and most of the villages in the area are entirely or close to entirely off grid, so i don't think i would be able to easily contact any native speakers either.
If anyone can help me figure out ways to make learning this language easier, anything is appreciated.
(TL) : Nalik (ISO639-3: nal)
[link] [comments]
from Language Learning https://ift.tt/L2ZhOKE
via Learn Online English Speaking
Comments
Post a Comment