OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C8B-C |
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Title: | Insects | |
Languages of Southwest Ambrym | ||
Contributor (annotator): | von Prince | |
Contributor (consultant): | GR | |
Coverage: | Vanuatu | |
Date: | 2010-06-04 | |
Description: | This is one of several recordings in which von Prince prompts a speaker to talk about a variety of animals, in this case particularly insects. The middle-aged male speaker explains the physical and behavioural properties of the insects as well as their cultural significance and symbolic value. | |
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 insects described in this recording include: two ant species two grasshopper species a worm several stages of the woodborer larvae spiders harvestman a bug living on banana plants millipede (invasive species) lice mosquitos blowfly fruitfly butterfly | ||
After compiling a list of local animals, von Prince sat down with SD and prompted him to talk about a variety of insects. His account was recorded, transcribed and translated by von Prince, with the help of GR. | ||
The informant is a senior member of his community. He is a gifted narrator of funny stories, but is less at ease when confronted with a microphone. | ||
GR is a young and bright member of his community and has been suggested to assist me with transcriptions and translations while JM was away from the island. | ||
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_00-0000-0000-0021-6C8B-C | |
Publisher: | Manfred Krifka | |
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin | ||
Subject: | Discourse | |
Description | ||
Daakaka language | ||
Dakaka | ||
Subject (ISO639): | bpa | |
Type: | audio | |
OLAC Info |
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Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
OAI Info |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6C8B-C | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
Citation: | GR (consultant); von Prince (annotator). 2010-06-04. Manfred Krifka. | |
Terms: | area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
Country: | Vanuatu | |
Area: | Pacific |