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Ukarumpa is an international community that is the main center for Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), located in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It lies approximately by road from Kainantu in the Aiyura Valley. The population consists of a variety of Christian workers, their families and employees. The base was established in the mid-1950s by Wycliffe Bible Translators. The current population is approximately 600. ==History== The 99-year lease for the at Ukarumpa was signed by Dick Pittman, accompanied by founding Director, Dr. James C. ("Jim") Dean for the Summer Institute of Linguistics on 4 October 1956. In early 1957, Jim Dean, his wife Gladys and their four children, Sharon, Timothy, Roseann and David, became the first family to take up residence at Ukarumpa. They lived in one of the first native-materials houses built on the property. (Their fifth child, Jonathan, was born in the coastal city of Lae in 1962). Jim Dean was the founding Director of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the (then) United Nations mandated Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea, and remained as Director until he was reassigned to establish the S.I.L. operations in India in the mid-1960s. The had been the Peacock Plantation, a failed commercial venture. Before that, however, it was a plot of land that was used as the tribal war lands of the nearby tribes (and traditional enemies), the Gadsup and Tairora. Because the land was vacant in the mid-1950s, and only a portion of it, near the Bae'e river, was suitable for gardens, the Australian administrators offered it as one of several potential sites for the SIL base of operations. Originally the land was open ''kunai'' (a type of waist-high grass with sharp-edged leaves) with few trees and no development. The members built homes and planted trees which continue to attract bird life. All of the buildings and roads were built by mission volunteers with financial donations from churches and individuals in their home countries. The function of Ukarumpa is to serve as an operations base for translators, linguists, literacy specialists, teachers and other professionals, who are mainly volunteer workers with SIL. SIL International is an organization that places a strong emphasis on linguistic research and biblical translation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ukarumpa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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