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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071953

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Title:Night-time conversations 04
Y15_Canon_0274
Audio-visual documentation of Meakambut ways of speaking
Contributor (researcher):Darja
Contributor (speaker):Pasu
Uriamey
Yuam
Coverage:PNG
Date:2015-06-26
Description:Evening conversation in the house
The Meakambut are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, numbering about 60, moving between camps and rock shelters in their mountainous territory in East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. As one of very few semi-nomadic groups in Melanesia, they are key for understanding the (socio)linguistic situation which would have prevailed before agriculture. Apart from basic word-lists there has been no prior research on the language. Using observational filming to supplement basic linguistic and ethnographic documentation, this project provides audio-visual documentation and analysis of a variety of Meakambut speech practices, embedded in rich ethnographic data.
This is a recording of evening conversations in a camp-house while preparing a meal. Interaction between a couple and their baby.
age estimated can understand a bit of Anday, Enga, Awiakay, fluent in TP
age estimated. Uriamey recently learnt Tok Pisin. She can iunderstand a bit of Anday and Enga
age in 2015 only starting to speak
Darja's mother tongue is Slovene, her working languages are Tok Pisin and English. She is fluent in Tok Pisin and Awiakay, but has only basic knowledge of Meakambut. She's the researcher and filmmaker.
Format:video/mp4
text/plain
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071953
IPF0221
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1071953%23
Publisher:Darja Hoenigman
The Australian National University
Subject:Conversation
Meakambut
Tok Pisin language
Subject (ISO639):tpi
Type:Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071953
DateStamp:  2017-11-08
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Citation: Pasu (speaker); Uriamey (speaker); Yuam (speaker); Darja (researcher). 2015-06-26. Darja Hoenigman.
Terms: area_Pacific country_PG iso639_tpi

Inferred Metadata

Country: Papua New Guinea
Area: Pacific


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