A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Biage Language Group
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SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2015-011
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Hiley, Rachel, Rachel Gray and Thom Retsema
Issue Date:
2015
Abstract:
The SIL-PNG language survey team conducted a sociolinguistic survey of Biage [bdf] from October 11th to October 17th and on October 30th 2006. The goals of the survey were to establish language and dialect boundaries, to assess language vitality, and to investigate the potential for a language development program.
It was found that Biage is a separate language from Mountain Koiali [kpx], of which it was previously considered a dialect. The language appeared to be vital and a good candidate for language development.
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57 pages
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Survey Report
Recorded Text Test (RTT)
Language Surveys
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Papua New Guinea
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