Weri is spoken in Papua New Guinea. The Weri Talking Dictionary was produced by Mr. Echo Yawip in during a series of digital media skills workshops held at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (UNITECH) between 2014-2015. At the events, local indigenous students learned how to create the first-ever Talking Dictionaries for their own native languages in collaboration with researchers from Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. The team involved in teaching the workshop was Gregory D. S. Anderson, Anna Luisa Daigneault and Robbie Hart. This project was funded by the Christensen Fund. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. 

Papua New Guinea's Languages

The island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents the greatest single concentration of linguistic diversity on earth, with 830 listed languages identified thus far, and an unknown number remaining to be scientifically documented.

Without PNG, no survey of the world's languages would be complete, nor would our understanding of the current global process of languages extinction. With so many of PNG's languages being undocumented and in danger of disappearing, now is the time to start creating recordings of these languages, and helping local activists and students to create materials that can preserve their languages for the future.

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Learn more about the Weri language: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/weri1253

The initial version of this Talking Dictionary can be found here: http://talkingdictionary.swarthmore.edu/weri/