Language Report
Write a language report on a different region than your essay from Homework 2 [For Hw2 I wrote on Vanuatu in Melanesia, so this essay should be on a country or island in Polynesia or Micronesia].
Write an essay covering all of the following questions.
Be sure to cite your sources both in-text and in a reference list at the end of your paper. Please
be consistent in the style you use (e.g. APA, MLA).
• The location and population in the area of your choice.
• The number of languages spoken there and the number of speakers of each.
• The domains of use of a language or languages in the area of your choice.
o education, daily life, work, media, religion
• Are there any interesting linguistic features of the languages in your area?
o phonology (e.g. sounds), morphology, syntax (e.g. grammar), orthography
• Are any of the languages threatened or endangered? Why?
• Include a brief description of the history of the region (e.g. settlement, colonization,
independence, etc.).