OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD6-8

Metadata
Title:		Rat and Dove
		Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor:		von Prince
Contributor (annotator):		JM
Contributor (consultant):		RT
Coverage:		Vanuatu
Date:		2009-10-10
Description:		A young woman tells the story of the rat and the dove, which explains how the rat got its whiskers.
		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.
		This story is about the rat and the dove. The birds and the rat are working in their gardens. All the birds have prepared some food for lunch except for the rat. Most birds have prepared white yam, only the dove has prepared red yam. When the birds realize that the dove's food has disappeared, they falsely accuse another bird of stealing it, while it was in fact the rat who ate it. When the rat laughs in delight about his succesfull coup, the birds see the colour of the red yam on his teeth and therefore know him to be the culprit. They strike him across the face with a broom and since then the rat has whiskers.
		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.
		RT is a young woman whose first language is Daakaka.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD6-8
Publisher:		Manfred Krifka
		Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:		Kastom Story
		Animal
		Unspecified
		Daakaka language
		Dakaka
Subject (ISO639):		bpa
Type:		audio
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_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD6-8
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		JM (annotator); von Prince; RT (consultant). 2009-10-10. Manfred Krifka.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific