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Title:lelegesan_5
Documenting Totoli, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Contributor:Salun
Contributor (singer):Rahmat
Amasia Musa
Surajudin
Ali Mudaling
Coverage:Indonesia
Date:2007-08-11
Description:Recording of the third part of a 'lelegesan' performance the night before the wedding of WN's brother. The performance was continued until five o'clock (recorded till 3) in the morning, but because the cassette had to be changed in between and there are also other performances, it is divided into several sessions.
Totoli ist eine Sprache, die im nördlichen Zentral-Sulawesi gesprochen wird. Obwohl sie üblicherweise als eine Sprache der Tomini-Tolitoli Gruppe bezeichnet wird, ist ihre genetische Abstammung unklar. Sie besitzt einige einzigartige strukturelle Charakteristika, die eine besondere Rolle in der Geschichte der austronesischen Valenzsysteme spielen (voice and applicatives). Obwohl die Sprechergemeinschaft heute eine muslimische Gesellschaft ist, die sich an den Werten des modernen indonesischen Mainstreams orientiert, haben die älteren Sprecher eine Reihe von Sprechritualen früherer Kulturformen bewahrt; dazu gehört auch eine Form eines verbalen Kampfes, der "Lelegesan" genannt wird. In diesem Projekt wird besonderes Gewicht auf die Einbeziehung von Daten aus Konversation in die Dokumentation gelegt, da dieses Genre meist in den Dokumentationen von Minoritätensprachen in Indonesien fehlt. Ein anderes Ziel ist die Vermittlung von Kompetenz im Bereich der Sprachdokumentation durch lokale und nationale Workshops in Indonesien.
Totoli is a language of northern Central Sulawesi still spoken by at most 5000 speakers. Although it is commonly named as a member of the Tomini-Tolitoli group, its genetic affiliation is unclear. It has some apparently unique structural characteristics which are of central importance to the history of Austronesian valency changing systems (voice and applicatives). While the Totoli speech community nowadays is a Muslim society adhering to the values and aspirations of the modern Indonesian mainstream, the older speakers still master a broad variety of verbal arts, including a form of verbal battling called “lelegesan”. In this project a special effort is being made to include conversational materials in the documentation as this genre is mostly missing in the existing documentations of minority languages in Indonesia. Another aim is a contribution to capacity building in the domain of language documentation through local and national workshops in Indonesia.
WN, GR, and many party guests were also present.
Pak Rahmat is a rice farmer in Togaso, he also works as PPN (Pegawai ??). He claims to speak Bugis, Dondo, Buol, Kaili Gorontalo, Javanese, Banjar in addition to Totoli and Indonesian. He also is a known lelegesan performer who is often called to festivities.
Amasia is a farmer in Tende, she has Gorontalo anchestry and is regularly called to festivities in order to perform lelegesan.
Surajudin is a farmer in Ogomoli, Dusun Doiyan. He is regularly called to festivities in order to perform lelegesan with other singers.
Ali Mudaling is a farmer in Tende, he is regularly called to festivities to perform lelegesan together with other singers.
Salun is a farmer in Togaso. He often is called to festivities to perform lelegesan with other singers.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0014-C7EE-3
Publisher:Nikolaus Himmelmann; Claudia Leto; Sonja Riesberg
Universität zu Köln, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Subject:Singing
Chant
Unknown
Totoli language
Subject (ISO639):txe
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Rahmat (singer); Amasia Musa (singer); Surajudin (singer); Ali Mudaling (singer); Salun. 2007-08-11. Nikolaus Himmelmann; Claudia Leto; Sonja Riesberg.
Terms: area_Asia country_ID iso639_txe

Inferred Metadata

Country: Indonesia
Area: Asia


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