Kape: the language rope that binds the people of a remote Indonesian island
Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, an associate professor of linguistics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, called my attention to this article he wrote for The Conversation (1/26/25), "Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language". He and his research team are currently doing intensive fieldwork on the languages of the remote Indonesian island of Alor, which lies northeast of Timor-Leste. Their purpose is to document and preserve endangered languages. Among the endangered languages they have discovered and first documented is Kape, which I will discuss in more detail below.
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