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Title:Questions on the lexicon: animal names
GCM_010807
Documenting Movima
Contributor:GCM
Katharina Haude
Beuse
Coverage:Bolivia
Date:2007-08-01
Description:Duración: 00:30:08:360 La enterevista se realiza afuera. Además de KH, SB y GCM hay otro parlante presente que de vez en cuando hace comentarios explicativos del fondo, pero no aparece en el video.
Length: 00:30:08:360 The interview takes place outside. Besides of KH and SB and GCM there is another speaker present and sometimes commenting on something from the background, but he does not appear in the video.
The Movima Archive Movima is a genetically unclassified language spoken in the so-called Moxos region in the savannahs of the Bolivian Amazon area. It is still spoken by more than 1,000 people (1,452 in 1996). Most speakers are over 50 years old and bilingual in Spanish. There are only very few children who still learn the language, while children are usually raised in Spanish only. Today, efforts are being made to implement the language at schools. The village Santa Ana del Yacuma, the center of the Movima-speaking area with approximately 12,000 inhabitants, was founded approximately in 1708 by the Jesuits. The Jesuits also converted the the Movima people to Catholicism. There does not seem to be an observable trace of Precolumbian culture (traditions, mythology) left. It is therefore quite striking that the Movimas have kept their native language until today. Since the language is getting lost rapidly, one goal of our data collection is to gather authobiographical information from its last fluent speakers. At the same time, as much as possible other text types were collected, such as dialogues, procedural texts, descriptions etc. The village „fiesta“ on July 26th is culturally very important. It includes processions, bull fights, and dancing. Many people from the country visit the village, and the Movima language is spoken a lot. Therefore much of the data has to do with the fiesta. The Movima project contains data collected between 2001 and 2008 in Santa Ana del Yacuma, Bolivia. Between 2001 and 2004, they were collected by Katharina Haude, then Nijmegen University. Since 2006, they were collected by Silke Beuse and Katharina Haude within the DoBeS project at the University of Cologne. Field work was carried out during the dry season between June and October each year.
Length: 00:30:08:360 At the beginnig KH askes the speaker to pronounce some words, especially animal names. After a while the have a conversation on Movima about a story GCM had already told once, about how the church was "made".
Duración: 00:30:08:360 Al comienzo de la sesión KH pidió a la parlante pronunciar algunas ciertas palabras, especialmente nombres de animales. Después de un rato tienen una charla en Movima sobre una historia que GCM ya había contado una vez, sobre como se "hizo" la iglesia.
The conversations starts in Spanish. KH had asked the speaker to pronounce properly some animal names she had collected before so that they coud record them. While the speaker is thinking about Movima to answer the questions she automatically switches to speak Movima.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7916-7
Publisher:Katharina Haude
University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Discourse
Conversation, Interview
questions about the lexicon, animal names
Movima language
Spanish language
Subject (ISO639):mzp
spa
Type:audio
video

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Citation: GCM; Katharina Haude; Beuse. 2007-08-01. Katharina Haude.
Terms: area_Americas area_Europe country_BO country_ES iso639_mzp iso639_spa

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Country: BoliviaSpain
Area: AmericasEurope


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