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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1143968

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Title:Linguistic journey: Katrina Esau
nuu018
Documentation for the revitalisation of Nǀuu
Contributor (researcher):Sheena Shah
Matthias Brenzinger
Contributor (speaker):Ouma Geelmeid
Coverage:South Africa
Date:2015-01-23
Description:Katrina Esau talks about the hardships of her early youth growing up on a farm where the white farmer did not allow her and her family to speak their Nǀuu language. For half a century, Katrina did not speak her mother tongue and spoke only Afrikaans to her husband and her children. In the late 1990s, through the initiative of linguists, about 20 elderly ǂKhomani community members revealed their competence in Nǀuu. Together, they started remembering and recovering the mother tongue of their youth. They discussed terms and sentences and listened to old Nǀuu recordings from archives. In this way, Katrina regained her fluency in Nǀuu and engaged in teaching her language to children and other community members. She expresses her gratitude to all the linguists who worked with her and individually names all of them. She remembers the speakers who have sadly passed away and expresses her deep desire to pass on the language to future generations.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/mp4
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1143968
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1143968%23
Subject:Monologue
N/u language
N|u
Subject (ISO639):ngh
Type:Audio
Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1143968
DateStamp:  2018-09-13
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Citation: Ouma Geelmeid (speaker); Sheena Shah (researcher); Matthias Brenzinger (researcher). 2015-01-23. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms: area_Africa country_ZA iso639_ngh

Inferred Metadata

Country: South Africa
Area: Africa


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