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Metadata
Title:Mahi sings traditional songs
RG01S-Mahi4
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker5
Speaker8
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2001-07-13
Description:ENGLISH: An old woman performs various traditional songs. Unfortunately her voice is not very loud in the recording, because she was already tired, but the video is nevertheless interesting. ---- PORTUGUÊS: Uma mulher idosa canta várias músicas tradicionais. Infelizmente a voz ela não soa muito alta na gravação, porque ela já estava cansada, mas o vídeo é ainda asism interessante.
The purpose of the project is to document Trumai, a genetically isolate language spoken in Brazil. The archive consists of a collection of texts in the language, plus other kinds of materials relative to the Trumai culture, such as photos, drawings, songs, educational materials, etc.
A Trumai speaker sings various kinds of traditional songs
Some of the songs are in the Trumai language. The others are not (they actually have special lyrics).
The main participant is Speaker5. Her granddaughter (Speaker8) listens to the songs, although she does not appear in the video.
Speaker5 is the oldest Trumai speaker alive. She lives with one of her grand-daughters. Her husband was Kamayurá. Speaker5 has never learned to speak Portuguese, and for this reasons all her children grandchildren had to learn Trumai, in order to communicate with her. They claim that the Trumai variety that Speaker5 speaks is a little different from the variety they speak nowadays (Speaker5 uses archaic terms and old expressions). She is an old woman (70 or more).
Speaker8 is a native speaker of Trumai. Her mother is Trumai, her father is Waurá. She was married for a while; nowadays she is separated, living with her parents and her little son.
Raquel is a Brazilian linguist. She has been working with the Trumai people since 1989. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A).
Format:video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-4656-4
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Song
Upper Xingu festivities
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):tpy
Type:video

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-4656-4
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Speaker5; Speaker8; Raquel. 2001-07-13. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas country_BR iso639_tpy

Inferred Metadata

Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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