The UH Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature and Japan’s National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics have entered into a collaboration that expands endangered language research endeavors.
Blust is recognized for his contributions to the understanding of human language, and the Austronesian language family.
The project, entitled “Building a Hawaiian Spoken Language Repository,” will create a digital corpus of recordings and transcripts of Native Hawaiian language.
Professor Robert A. Blust of UH Mānoa’s Department of Linguistics recognized for tremendous contributions to the field of linguistics.
UH Mānoa’s College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature’s hosted the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation.
UH Mānoa’s Andrea Berez, Eleanor Kleiber and Hiroko Sato were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A UH Mānoa research team identifies confirms the existence of a previously undocumented language in Hawaiʻi called Hawaiʻi Sign Language.
Linguistics expert Ho-min Sohn is honored by the Korean government for his work on Korean language.
