Swiss linguist Jean Rohleder had to interrupt his work in New Caledonia owing to violent rioting. He explains what's really behind the protests. Jean Rohleder, a Swiss linguist at the University of Bern, was already on his way to New Caledonia, a French territory comprising dozens of islands in the South Pacific, when protests broke out. He intended on returning to where he had spent nearly a year studying the indigenous language of an ethnic group, but because the airport in the capital Nouméa was closed... Читать дальше...
