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Title:Lazarus
Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor:von Prince
Contributor (annotator):JM
Contributor (consultant):FT
Coverage:Vanuatu
Date:2009-10-07
Description:The senior male speaker tells the biblical story of Lazarus and the rich man.
The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
The recording is a re-telling of the biblical story of Lazarus and the rich man. The speaker has consumed a certain amount of kava before the recording, which might be the reason why the story is lacking coherence.
The story was told by FT, recorded, transcribed, glossed and translated into English by Kilu von Prince with the help of JM.
This informant from Emyotungan is a fieldworker of the Cultural Center of Vanuatu and has been involved in attempts to conserve the language prior to the project. As many of the informants, he is very much concerned with the growing influence of Bislama on the language and is trying to avoid using loan words. His knowledge of stories and his commitment to preserve the language have been very helpful.
JM has assisted at most of the transcriptions and translations of the recordings in Daakaka, being a very gifted informant. He has spend part of his education in the country's capital Vila.
Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C86-5
Publisher:Manfred Krifka
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Biblical
Daakaka language
Dakaka
Subject (ISO639):bpa
Type:audio

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Search Info

Citation: FT (consultant); JM (annotator); von Prince. 2009-10-07. Manfred Krifka.
Terms: area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa

Inferred Metadata

Country: Vanuatu
Area: Pacific


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