{"id":9126,"date":"2019-08-29T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:13:20","slug":"honiara-language-workshop-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2019\/08\/honiara-language-workshop-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Honiara language workshop, August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Solomon Islands Kulu Language Institute (KLI) organised a workshop in August this year that attracted 100 participants representing 44 languages of the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n

The venue was the leaf house at Saint Barnabas Anglican Cathedral Grounds, Honiara. The workshop was sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language<\/a>, the Kulu Language Institute, the University of Melbourne, The Research Unit for Indigenous Language<\/a>, and Islands Bible Ministries.<\/p>\n

KLI has been running for 20 years and offers courses in the grammar of Luqa (Lungga), a language of Ranongga in the west of\u00a0the Solomons.\u00a0 Dr Zobule has written a grammar of the language using entirely local terms developed specifically to avoid using any English concepts.<\/p>\n

There were two public lectures at the National Museum:
\nWhy every language matters: what language diversity has to tell us, <\/em>by Professor Nicholas Evans.<\/p>\n

The Kulu Language Institute: A vernacular language movement in Ranongga, <\/em>by Dr Alpheaus Zobule<\/p>\n

Topics covered in the workshop included the following:<\/p>\n