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Ruinning document projects:
Ngalum, an Ok language of the central highlands. (since 2022)
Ngalum is an underresourced language from the Ok family. It classification within Ok is unclear yet:
it is either subsumed in the Lowland Ok subbranch or even forming its own subbranch on a par wich Lowland Ok and Mountain Ok.
Since 2022, I am collecting material (audio-visual recordings, vocabulary, elicited sentences) together with a handful of speakers
Mee (aka Ekari), a Paniai lakes language of the Western highlands. (since 2024)
Mee is an understudied language from the Paniai lakes family. It is spoken in a densely populated area of the three Wissel lakes in the Western highlands. Since 2024, I am collecting material (audio-visual recordings, vocabulary, elicited sentences) together with several speakers. My main interest is to discover differences and similarities with other languages classified as Trans-New Guinea languages.
Nemaya, an Ok variety of the central foothills. (since 2022)
Nemaya is very small Ok variety spoken in only three villages at the foothills in the border area between the regencies Boven Digoel and
Star Mountains. Linguistically this is the area between the Ok languages Ngalum and Muyu. Nemaya has not been previously mentioned
in the literature and it was only at an excursion in 2022 when I first heard about it. I am currently collecting material on this variety
mainly to find out, whether it should be treated as a dialect of Ngalum or a separate Ok language altogether.
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