Good News
This is great news and a fantastic use of digital technology. Or, as the villagers of PNG might say [Apologies if my Arapesh is a bit rusty]:
Aim'ju stmi kin d'issup. Bot huannel rij canss p'ik A'rap'sh in yawei
An anthropologist from the University of Virginia is using a hybrid of modern communications platforms to resurrect Arapesh, a defunct language from Papua New Guinea. University of Virginia linguist Lise Dobrin has used Facebook, Skype and mobile apps to create a digital archive, consisting of transcribed audio recordings and …