A team of academics from Oxford University have been sent to a remote area of Indonesia in order to save a language spoken by only three people. The last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner are been nearly wiped out by a flood and a volcano eruption. Linguists from the University of Oxford have rushed to Dusner, an Indonesian village, to capture the language, also called Dusner, before it is lost for ever.
Aditi Lahiri, Professor of Linguistics at Oxford, has been honoured with a prestigious award for her ‘significant contribution’ in the field of Philology, Linguistics, and Literature.
Professor Lahiri is the first Chair of the newly formed Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford, which was launched on 1 August 2008.
