Forthcoming: The Ende way: Short stories and songs from Limol. In collaboration with Wagiba Geser, Warama Kurupel (Suwede), Tonny (Tonzah) Warama, and other members of the Ende Language Committee

Kate L. Lindsey

Synopsis

This collection of Ende stories and songs contains 20 texts from the
Ende Language Corpus, a repository of Ende language and culture. The
texts were compiled by the Ende Language Committee and represent a
diverse set of authors, illustrators, and translators from the
community. Each text is accompanied by a summary, contextual
background, and presented in two formats: a running text format in
parallel with an English translation, and an interlinearized format
with English translations at the morpheme and sentence levels. The
texts cover a broad slice of Ende life and are organized into five
thematic parts: Animal Tales and Origin Stories, Tales of Hunting
and Survival, Heroic or Legendary Stories, Tales of Misbehavior and
Consequence, and Odes and Reflections on the Natural World. Audio
versions of all the texts are available online through the Ende
Language Corpus.

Author Biography

Kate L. Lindsey

Kate L. Lindsey first encountered the Pahoturi River language family
of southern Papua New Guinea in 2011 through Wasang Baiio, an Idi
speaker and language consultant for a Field Methods class. In 2015,
Warama Kurupel (Suwede) invited her to support the Ende Language
Committee’s efforts to enhance community literacy, reigniting her
connection to the language family. She earned her Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 2019, focusing her dissertation on Ende
phonology. As director of the Structures of Under-Researched
Languages lab at Boston University’s linguistics department, Kate
continues to document and analyze the Pahoturi River language family.

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Published

July 17, 2025
LaTeX source on GitHub

Online ISSN

3052-9956

Print ISSN

3052-9948
Cite as
Lindsey, Kate L.. Forthcoming. The Ende way: Short stories and songs from Limol. In collaboration with Wagiba Geser, Warama Kurupel (Suwede), Tonny (Tonzah) Warama, and other members of the Ende Language Committee. (Open Text Collections). Berlin: Language Science Press.

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