OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D93A-2

Metadata
Title:		Top09_GNM_SAT_conversation
Contributor:		Dejan Matic
		Alexandra Lavrillier
		Natalia Aralova
		Luise Zippel
Contributor (author):		Natalia Golikova
		Arsen Slepcov
Contributor (translator):		Marfa Turantaeva
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2009-07-03
Description:		The session took place in GNM's house in the village of Topolinoe, Tompo region of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation. DM and AL visited GNM. The recording was done in mono with a Zoom recorder, a Maranz recorder, and a digital handycam. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .mod and later converted to mpeg2.
		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.
		This session contains a fragment of a conversation between GNM and SAT. SAT has come to GNM's house to ask for a key of the sauna. GNM starts talkign about the teaching of Even in schools; when SAT tries to excuse himself by referring to his friend Petr, who is waiting for him, GNM tells a story about Petr waiting for SAT on different occasions.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		application/pdf
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D93A-2
Publisher:		Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; University of Versailles
Subject:		Discourse
		Unspecified
		Even language
		Russian language
Subject (ISO639):		eve
		rus
Type:		audio
		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D93A-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Natalia Golikova; Arsen Slepcov. 2009-07-03. Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier.
Terms:		area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve iso639_rus
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Russian Federation
Area:		Europe