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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 23,1964
KU Woman to Chart Language Spoken by New Guinea Natives
A woman instructor will leave KU this summer to do a year's study of the unwritten language of Ipili, spoken by Ipili natives on the highlands of New Guinea.
Francis Ingemann, associate professor of English and linguistics will take her sabbatical year from KU starting in July to try to document an unwritten language.
SHE SAID that in a year's time she hopes to have prepared an Ipill language book for the government and for missionaries.
Miss Ingemann will be financed by her KU sabbatical semester pay, the Lutheran Church, and her own pocketbook. A sabbatical year is a paid independent research period for instructors who have taught on the hill for about seven years.
Miss Ingemann started teaching at KU in 1957 after graduating from Indiana University with a degree in linguistics.
Miss Ingemann said there are more than 500 languages spoken in New Guinea, and that only a small number of these have been studied.
She will be living with some Lutheran missionaries who have been in the area since last fall.
NEW GUINEA lies north of Australia.
The area of the Ipili natives has only recently been reopened to the white man. It was opened up in the 1930's by a gold rush, but the miners were soon run out by the government. The Australian government sent patrols through the Ipilidist every few years, but other than during these patrols, white men have not ventured into this restricted area since the 1930's.
The Ipili area was opened last year and Lutheran missionaries have entered the area.
Miss Ingemann said that until the natives began trading with the white man, their culture was primitive. They lacked the knowledge
of weaving cloth and working metal. THE SAID she will be near other Lutheran missionaries who have been working in an adjacent area,
according to correspondence she has had with the missionaries in the Ipili area, but she does not know how close is the adjacent area.
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