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Title:Zaxarov_AV_song
Contributor:Brigitte Pakendorf
Natalia Aralova
Contributor (speaker):Aleksandr Vasilevich
Contributor (translator):Ija Vasil'evna Krivoshapkina
Coverage:Russian Federation
Date:2010-03-18
Description:AVZ came to the flat that NA and BP were renting in the early evening specifically to tell a story in Even. It was quiet except for a truck or two that went by outside. At first he narrated an anecdote from his army days and told a bit about how it was to live in the local boarding school, and after that, he sang a song written by another Sebjan-Kuel resident, PDN. 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, with the .wav file from the video being used for annotations in Elan.
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.
This is a song written by another Sebjan resident, PDN.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
text/x-pfsx+xml
application/pdf
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-C919-7
Publisher:Brigitte Pakendorf
CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
Subject:Even language
Subject (ISO639):eve
Type:audio
video

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Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-C919-7
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: Aleksandr Vasilevich (speaker); Brigitte Pakendorf; Natalia Aralova; Ija Vasil'evna Krivoshapkina (translator); Brigitte Pakendorf; Brigitte Pakendorf. 2010-03-18. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms: area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve

Inferred Metadata

Country: Russian Federation
Area: Europe


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