Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures Eça de Queirós and Father António Vieira, among other great Lusophone authors, through the publishing of previously unavailable sources and reference works, including complete works of the great figures from the History of Portuguese culture. The interchange of knowledge between Lusophone and European cultures has also been expanded, giving rise to interartistic studies (coordinated by Annabela Rita), to the imaginary of cultural studies (coordinated by José Eduardo Franco), to the studies on interculturality of the iberian world and the Slavonic world (coordinated by Béata Cieszynska), to the studies on the didactics of literature, the work in oral and traditional literatures,
Taiap language Taiap language Taiap (or Tayap, also called Gapun, after the name of the village in which it is spoken) is an endangered language isolate spoken by around a hundred people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. It is being replaced by the national language and lingua franca Tok Pisin. The first European to come across Taiap was a German missionary in 1938. The language was not studied by linguists until the 1970s because of the inaccessibility of the region. Taiap has a Pandanus language, spoken when harvesting karuka. Although Donald Laycock (1973) placed Taiap in his Sepik