Arbil.1.3.18108
2010-03-30
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0016-A9A5-1
clarin.eu:cr1:p_1407745712035
MPI corpora : Language and Cognition : africa : Avatime : Shared
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yam04-borborbor
yam04-borborbor
2008-11-01
A borborbor dance at the Yam festival in Amedzofe
Africa
Ghana
Amedzofe market/durba ground
Avatime
A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
MPI for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
saskia.vanputten@mpi.nl
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina).
Singing
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song
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interactive
planned
non-elicited
Public
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Face to Face
The song is in Ewe
ISO639-3:avn
Avatime
true
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Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
ISO639-3:eng
English
false
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English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
The MC starts off by saying that they need more time before the next item and so invites the music group to come back and play.
They come back and do another borborbor.
video
video/x-mpeg2
225744KB
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The recording was made using a JVC Everio digital video camera. The file is saved in MPEG2 format with 3400 kbps video encoding rate and 256 kbps audio encoding rate. The aspect ratio is 4:3 and the size of the video is 352 x 576. It is recorded in PAL format.
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