Enggano Projects

In 2024–2025, the SDS team supported two AHRC-funded projects: ‘Enggano in the Austronesian family: Historical and typological perspectives’ and ‘Lexical resources for Enggano, a threatened language of Indonesia’.

These marked our third and fourth collaborations with Professor Mary Dalrymple (Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) and her team, who we first worked with in 2022, on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project: ‘Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua’.

Enggano is an endangered language of just 1,500 speakers on Enggano Island, off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. SDS was able to support Professor Dalrymple and her team with bulk migration support, self-service uploads, and workflows involving contributors without an SSO. 

Working with the Sustainable Digital Scholarship team has enabled us to host a range of primary data outputs from our work on the Enggano project. These include audio and video recordings of the Enggano language, as well as primary data sets and analytical materials, that have great value for linguists and anthropologists interested in Austronesian languages and cultures, as well as the Enggano community.

The [SDS] platform has enabled us to make the data available to a wider audience and help to promote and preserve the Enggano language, which is vitally important in the context of language endangerment.

Dr Charlotte Hemmings

Postdoctoral Researcher