OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-DA65-5

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Title:		Amganov_EI_pugalo
		Amganov_EI_pugalo_Esso_140609
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2009-06-14
Description:		On 14th June 2009, BP and NA went to visit the Amganovs, where we first drank tea, looked at their photo album and asked some questions; only after an hour did we get out the recording equipment. NA was in charge of the video, while BP monitored the Marantz recorder. Only EIA and EPA were present (in addition to BP and NA); however, somewhere in the middle of the recording a daughter or two plus grandkids slipped in and out - but they did not join in the storytelling. Other than that there were hardly any surrounding noises. EIA was in a storytelling mood and kept remembering humourous little anecdotes, which he recounted with a lot of accompanying gestures. In between he gave Russian summaries/retold it all in Russian - but the video files were cut in such a way as to exclude that (except where he switched to Russian in the middle of an Even narrative). The recording was done in mono with a Marantz recorder and a Sony handycam on videotape. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .avi and later converted to mpeg2. The individual anecdotes (11 in total, varying in length from 1 minute to 12 minutes) were analysed individually, as individual ELAN/Toolbox files, and are archived as separate sessions.
		Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
		'Pugalo' = This narrative is half in Even (only about 6 annotations), half in Russian; it's about how some children were frightened by some milkers; it's the fourth anecdote of the session.
		EIA very frequently adds a vowel to the end of consonant-final words, and he relatively frequently pronounces intervocalic -s- as -h-; in addition, he speaks very fast when animated, and frequently swallows syllables.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-DA65-5
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:		Undetermined language
		Even
		Russian
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		audio
		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-DA65-5
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2009-06-14. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		iso639_und
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