OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-CFA7-6

Metadata
Title:		Kirillina_KK_history
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2010-03-21
Description:		KKK came to the flat where NA and BP are staying on a Sunday morning, after prior arrangement. However, it turned out that she felt uncomfortable speaking Even to two near-strangers, especially with a microphone and video camera, so we agreed that she would come again and bring an Even audience with her. However, she did consent to give a very brief little account of the early history of Sebjan-Kuel. It was very quiet during the recording, which was done in the kitchen of the apartment, and only NA and BP were present. 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.
		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.
		KKK gave a brief description of the early history of the village.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-CFA7-6
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:		Even language
Subject (ISO639):		eve
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_00-0000-0000-0018-CFA7-6
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2010-03-21. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Russian Federation
Area:		Europe