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https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0021-6C83-1
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DoBeS archive : West Ambrym Languages
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Lisepsep at Malver
The lisepsep reef at Malver
2009-11-04
The young male speaker tells the story of how a lisepsep got caught and thrown into the sea at Malver. To this day, his body can still be seen as part of a reef. The story comes with a song, sung by the distressed lisepsep.
Oceania
Vanuatu
Sesivi
Ambrym
Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Manfred Krifka
ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
krifka@zas.gwz-berlin.de
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
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.
Lisepsep
Myth
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speech
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The speaker concentrates on avoiding borrowings from Bislama. Where he fails, longer pauses ensue. The song is not in Daakaka.
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Dakaka
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Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
The story starts with the people of a village, who plan to clear a new area of the bush for agricultural use. A lisepsep watches them cut down trees and bushes, but after they have left, he makes all the vegetation grow back again. When the villagers arrive the next day to continue their work, they see that all they had achieved so far has been undone and they start anew. But the lisepsep works his magic again and their work has been in vain. So they devise a plan to find out what is making the plants grow back. When they realize that a lisepsep is responsible for their hardship, only the slightly challenged Tase is brave enough to catch him. The villagers carry the captive lisepsep along, despite his plea to let him go. They attack him with weapons and throw him into the sea where he turns into a reef which can be seen to this day.
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The young male speaker from the area of Malver is a gifted storyteller and singer and was eager to contribute his story.
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Bislama
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false
Bislama is a creole with English as the main lexifier language and structural similarities to other Austronesian languages. It is one of three national languages of Vanuatu, together with English and French. It is the main language used in primary education, the parliament and church service and is widely used in the news media. It is the most important medium for communication among speakers with different mother tongues.
ISO639-3:bpa
Dakaka
true
true
Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
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AU
AU
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The speaker is in his late twenties and lives in Sesivi. He works in the health center in Baiap and has received a good French education at the local school in Sesivi. He is very much concerned with the preservation of his mother tongue.
ISO639-3:bis
Bislama
false
false
Bislama is a creole with English as the main lexifier language and structural similarities to other Austronesian languages. It is one of three national languages of Vanuatu, together with English and French. It is the main language used in primary education, the parliament and church service and is widely used in the news media. It is the most important medium for communication among speakers with different mother tongues.
ISO639-3:bpa
Dakaka
true
true
Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
ISO639-3:fra
French
false
false
Linguist
von Prince
Kilu von Prince
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Kilu von Prince
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
prince@zas.gwz-berlin.de
ZAS, Humboldt University Berlin
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.
ISO639-3:deu
German
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German is von Prince's mother tongue.
ISO639-3:bpa
Dakaka
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Kilu has aquired a good working knowledge of the language during her first field trip, allowing her to partly transcribe the recordings and take part in casual conversations.
ISO639-3:bis
Bislama
false
false
Bislama is the most important language for interaction with the communities apart from the local languages.
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