oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927862
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OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927862 |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | The Wedding Lament | |
| The_Wedding_Lament | ||
| Documentation of the Southern Tujia Language of China | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | Shi Zeying | |
| Contributor (researcher): | Shixuan Xu | |
| Coverage: | China | |
| Date: | 2005-05 | |
| Description: | This section introduces the wedding customs of the Tujia people. According to Tujia tradition, the new bride begins to wail with a characteristic chant-like melody with improvised lyrics the night before her wedding ceremony. The wedding lament is mainly to show gratitude for being raised kindly by parents, to describe her reluctance to leave brothers and sisters, to recall her happy life with her family, and to express her guilt for not paying her filial piety and to show her warm greeting to relatives. The wedding lament is sung with chanting melody, and presents the bride’s talent in singing as well as expressing her sadness. And wedding lament is famous for it rich lyrics and long chant-like melody. | |
| Summary of deposit Southern Tujia (土家. ISO-639: tjs) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a small number of villages in the mountainous Wuling Range of the western Hunan and Hubei provinces of central south China.There are around 6 million Tujia people, however only a small number of these speak the Southern Tujia variant. The Northern variant (ISO-639: tji) is more widely spoken. This collection will contain data on language structure, phonological, lexical, and grammatical features. There will also be audio recordings of natural speech and folk literature. The aim is for this collection to contain the maximum amount of information about the language and about traditional culture expressed through the language, and to document other aspects of the language for which inadequate information exists. As part of the collection there will also be a reference grammar, a Tujia-Chinese-English dictionary, and corpora of traditional oral literature, which will be useful for both linguists and the speaker community, will be produced. Chinese will be used as the explanatory language in the grammars, and as the translation language for texts. Group represented Tujia (Bizika) people, China. Language information Southern Tujia (土家) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the mountainous areas of central south China, and has no literary tradition or adequate documentation. It currently is in the final phase of an apparently inexorable decline: the number of native speakers is less than 1000, and almost every remaining speaker is bilingual in Tujia and Chinese. | ||
| One of the languages for this actor is listed as: Semi-Chinese | ||
| ELDP grantee who deposited the project material | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
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| Identifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927862 | |
| MDP0095 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI927862%23 | |
| Publisher: | Shixuan Xu | |
| Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | ||
| Subject: | Narrative | |
| Southern Tujia language | ||
| Tujia, Southern | ||
| Undetermined language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | tjs | |
| und | ||
| Type: | Audio | |
OLAC Info |
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| Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927862 | |
| DateStamp: | 2020-08-03 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Shi Zeying (consultant); Shixuan Xu (researcher). 2005-05. Shixuan Xu. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_CN iso639_tjs iso639_und | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | China | |
| Area: | Asia | |