OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0019-D353-8

Metadata
Title:		Conversation_Esso
		Paderina_JI_Egorova_RM_conversation_Esso
Contributor:		BP
		NA
		RME
		JIP
		Rimma Maksimovna Egorova
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2009-07-07
Description:		The recording was undertaken in the kitchen of the house that BP and NA are renting in Esso. It had been arranged beforehand with RME, who'd invited her friend JIP. RME is our primary consultant and very much used to speaking with a microphone in front of her; JIP at first got a bit of a fright, but was able to uphold the conversation - which is mainly RME speaking, anyway. We'd laid the table with some things for tea, and then withdrew to other rooms to let the two women chat in as natural a setting as possible. There are some noises from the street, and unfortunately we'd forgotten to switch off the fridge, which came on in the middle. The recording was done on a Marantz recorder in stereo mode, with a microphone in front of each of the speakers; the video film was done with a JVC camera directly in .mpeg2 format.
		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.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0019-D353-8
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon Lumière 2
Subject:		Discourse
		Undetermined language
		Even
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		video
		audio
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
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0019-D353-8
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		BP; NA; RME; JIP; Rimma Maksimovna Egorova. 2009-07-07. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		iso639_und
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