Arsjo and Arsjo 1981

Arsjo and Arsjo 1981

Reference
	Arsjo, Soren, and Britten Arsjo. 1981. "Using Ama literates to determine their orthography." READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature.

Summary
	The Ama language is a non-Austronesian language, one of the six languages of the Arai family in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. The Ama people (about 350) live in the most western part of the province.
	Outside contact until 1969 was almost nonexistent and is still comparatively small. Teachers started a government school in 1974, when no one could read. Linguists began work in 1973 and wrote a tentative phonemic statement in 1974. After some trial literacy, they revised the statement in 1976 with a few changes suggested by the new literates. After the orthography was approved, they began an expanded literacy program.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Arsjo and Arsjo 1981
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): A
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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