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Title:Bataxaeva_TE_childhood
Coverage:Russian Federation
Date:2009-06-14
Description:This session was made in the living room in the flat that BP and NA rented. The room was quiet, we were three there (TEB, BP and NA). The speaker prepared a story beforehand and made some notes with Even words. She introduced herself and began to tell her story. When she finished, BP asked a pair of questions in Even and TEB answered in several sentences. NA was making recording with a Sony handycam on videotape. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .avi and later converted to mpeg2. A sound file from Video was used for Elan annotation, but also an uncompressed sound from Marantz audio recorder is archived (Bataxaeva_TE_Marantz.WAV).
Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
It's a story from childhood of the informant (TEB). When she was a child, she lived in the reindeer herd with her parents. Every evening she heard a noise of fire and clanging of tableware. After that when she lived in a boarding school, she was dreaming she was in the herd, when she heard such a noise in the night (from the dining room). She tells also about her life and life of her family later, about her father's work.
Format:video/x-mpeg2
audio/x-wav
application/pdf
text/x-pfsx+xml
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000F-2E98-8
Publisher:Natalia Aralova
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:childhood memories
Even language
Russian language
Subject (ISO639):eve
rus
Type:video
audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000F-2E98-8
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: n.a. 2009-06-14. Natalia Aralova.
Terms: area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve iso639_rus

Inferred Metadata

Country: Russian Federation
Area: Europe


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