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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CE0-A |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | Names of Yam | |
| Languages of Southwest Ambrym | ||
| Contributor: | von Prince | |
| Contributor (annotator): | JM | |
| Contributor (consultant): | BV | |
| Coverage: | Vanuatu | |
| Date: | 2009-09-26 | |
| Description: | The young male speaker gives an account of the names for the different kinds of yams in the language of the lisepseps. | |
| 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 speaker explains that in the old times, everyone knew very specifc names for all the different kinds of yams, whereas today only few terms continue to exist. The dwarf-like creatures called `lisepsep' also have their own names for all the different kinds of yam. These names are memorized as a formulaic list in which entry is of the form NAME1 sa NAME1 NAME2, NAME2 sa NAME2 NAME3 and so on. The formula as such cannot be translated. | ||
| The speaker was BV, Kilu von Prince recorded, annotated glossed and translated the text with the help of JM. | ||
| The informant is vice chief of his village. He is probably in his early thirties and does not know some of the archaic terms, but is eager to share his rich knowledge of stories and sayings. | ||
| 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 | |
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| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CE0-A | |
| Publisher: | Manfred Krifka | |
| Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin | ||
| Subject: | Poetry | |
| Yam | ||
| Daakaka language | ||
| Dakaka | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | bpa | |
| Type: | audio | |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CE0-A | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | BV (consultant); JM (annotator); von Prince. 2009-09-26. Manfred Krifka. | |
| Terms: | area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Vanuatu | |
| Area: | Pacific | |