PARADISEC treasures – Endangered Languages and Cultures

The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB)

6 March 20255 March 2025 by Steven Gagau

In 2024, I initiated the “ENB Digitisation and Preservation Project” aiming to collect old analogue tape recordings from my community in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. As a staff member at PARADISEC, community members were approaching me to let me know they had recordings of church choir songs, gospel songs, choral music, string … Read more

Grammars from archival records

23 April 202322 April 2023 by Nick Thieberger

Congratulations to Katie Bicevskis who presented her PhD completion talk last Friday. The PhD thesis is a grammar of Marri Ngarr, an Indigenous language from the Northern Territory, one of what are known as the Daly languages (https://dalylanguages.org/view_language.php?id=10). It has few speakers today, as most Marri Ngarr people now speak Murrinhpatha as a first language. … Read more