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Metadata
Title:Matekai2
matekai2
Documenting Waima'a, East Timor
Contributor (researcher):John Bowden
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Contributor (speaker):Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku
Olívia
Coverage:East Timor
Date:2002-11-17
Description:Riddles
Waima'a is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the Baucau district of East Timor. Goal of project is as comprehensive a documentation of communicative events and linguistic metaknowledge as possible. For further details on scope and format of documentation see link below.
stop and go recording, no cues, not very well structured suggested by NH/JB, with some Malay explanations only first minute or so of recording transcribed, WAV recording linked to shoebox filed because Video stopped briefly at the beginning, hence units 4 and 5 missing from video recording
Additional people present: Agostinha Belo (16?), plays guitar, belongs to extened Orlando family Olívia's father (Domingos2), a younger sister, small boy plus occasional onlookers who did not stay for long
for further details see his own CV (session: Mauricio_CV) no mothers name because parents were baptized very late, he himself baptized at the age of 17? da Conceição = Saint, Aparício = Godfather (< Luís Aparício Guterres, primary school teachter at the time, new diretór distrito since November 2004 ) was nearly 27 years old when project started One grandparent of Maurício (mother of mother) from Bucoli Knows Malay and Tetum, says that he knows only little Makasae but seems to be able to follow most of everyday interactions; Tetum probably primary language these days, as indicated in language choice father (Raku-Bie) dead mother (Joana Belo/Kasa-Watu) old and nearly deaf, living on hill Kailale Oli which belongs to Parlamento but is very close to the border of Kaisidu; mother does not know any other lg in addition to Waima'a
rudimentary knowledge of Tetum and Portuguese
Caisido/Parlamento, helps out as a teacher at elementary school, catechist (katekis) for the local church speaks W, Tetun, Malay, 3 months course of Portuguese for school ??Makasae in 2003 moved to house of husband in Wailakama see also Domingos2
delayed onset of recording
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-toolbox-text
DAT
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-6A18-0
VolkswagenStiftung Az.: II/78058
Publisher:Nikolaus Himmelmann
Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Literature
Unknown
Unspecified
Indonesian language
Waima'a language
Subject (ISO639):ind
wmh
Type:audio
video

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-6A18-0
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku (speaker); John Bowden (researcher); Nikolaus Himmelmann (researcher); Olívia (speaker). 2002-11-17. Nikolaus Himmelmann.
Terms: area_Asia country_ID country_TL iso639_ind iso639_wmh

Inferred Metadata

Country: IndonesiaEast Timor
Area: Asia


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