Reisberg, Sonja2017-05-102017-05-102017-03-03http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41994It is quite clear that the few western scholars working in the eld of language documentation will not succeed in documenting the immense diversity of the world’s endangered languages (cf. Florey/ Himmelmann 2010, among others). is paper reports on the experiences and challenges in putting together the CELD Papua corpus in a collaborative effort of capacity-building measurements for local university students and community language activists at the Centre for Endangered Languages Documentation (CELD) in West Papua (Indonesia).Sound