New Language Snapshots articles

Volume 24 of the platinum open access journal Language Documentation and Description (LDD) includes a set of Language Snapshots articles which provide basic information about the following languages and their speakers:

  • Ikpeng by Fernando Carvakho, Angela Chagas & Eduardo Vesconcelos. Ikpeng is a member of the Cariban language family and is spoken by approximately 477 people in the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil. download here
  • Kanauji by Anu Pandey. Kanauji is a threatened and low-resourced western-Hindi variety spoken by 7 million people in Kanpur, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Hardoi, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Kanauj, etc., Uttar Pradesh, India. download here
  • Louisiana Creole by Nathan Wendte. Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole that has effectively ceased to be transmitted intergenerationally, but persists in small pockets of ever-aging mother-tongue speakers, and by a sizeable number of competent younger speakers through revitalisation. download here
  • Kawahíva by Wesley Nascimento dos Santos. Kawahíva is a Tupí-Guaraní language of Western Brazil spoken by about 560 people from eight Indigenous communities. It has been suggested that the communities are the remnants of an ancestor who lived closer to the Mundukuru in Northern Brazil. Language transmission is still ongoing in one community, Tenharin Marmelos. download here

A classified list of other published Language Snapshot articles can be found on the EL Publishing website here.