his is a grammatical sketch of Pondi [ISO 639-3 lnm, Glottocode lang1328], a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. In this introductory chapter, I briefly describe the previous research on the language (§1.2) and my own research methodology (§1.3), before explaining the orthography and presentation of examples in this grammar (§1.4). Then I provide some extralinguistic context for the Pondi language and people (§1.5), describe its level of endangerment (§1.6), and discuss its genetic classification (§1.7). Chapter 1 concludes with a typological overview of Pondi’s grammar (§1.8). Chapter 2 covers matters of phonetics and phonology.