Documentation of Uyajitaya

 

Language	Uyajitaya
Depositor	Josua Dahmen
Affiliation	Australian National University
Location	Papua New Guinea
Collection ID	0837
Grant ID	IPF1033
Funding Body	ELDP
Collection Status	Forthcoming
Landing Page Handle	http://hdl.handle.net/2196/29b6b127-3155-46b9-934b-53c99fc9db74

 

Summary of the collection

This collection represents a varied corpus of audiovisual recordings of Uyajitaya language use within cultural and social contexts.

 

Group represented

The group represented in this deposit are the Uyajitaya people.

 

Language information

Uyajitaya (a.k.a. Uyaji, Duduela, Abowe, Amito, Amowe) is an endangered minority language spoken in the Madang Province of rural Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Rai Coast branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family.

 

Acknowledgement and citation

I wish to acknowledge the Uyajitaya speakers and their families for their generous contributions and support.

To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:

Dahmen, Josua. 2026. Documentation of Uyajitaya. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/b8accdaa-be4e-466d-bafb-95f4ca17d836.  Accessed in [insert date here].