Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures public high quality reference works in its field of expertise and complete works of pioneer sources of Portuguese and Lusophone culture and literature, such as works by Manuel Antunes, Mário Martins, Diogo de Teive and Fernão de Oliveira. Recent large scale projects by CLEPUL include "The Complete Works of Father António Vieira" and the complete pombaline works, both demanded by international scholars for many centuries. Other relevant projects include internationally recognized scientific works and recipient of prizes, such as: "Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia" [Thematic Dictionary of Lusophony] (2005), "Jardins do Mundo" [Gardens of the World] (2008), and "Dicionário Histórico das
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