Qaqet

Qaqet is spoken by about 15,000 people in the mountainous interior of Papua New Guinea's East New Britain Province. It belongs to the small Baining family, a group of 5 related non‐Oceanic (or 'Papuan') languages. Children grow up monolingually in the remote regions, but multilingually (with the national language Tok Pisin) in the more accessible regions. A longitudinal corpus of both monolingual and multilingual acquisition is currently being compiled by Birgit Hellwig and her team at the University of Cologne. More information can be found here.