OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD5-6

Metadata
Title:		Rat and Kingfisher
		Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor:		von Prince
		Krifka
Contributor (annotator):		JM
Contributor (author):		JM
Coverage:		Vanuatu
Date:		2009-09-07
Description:		This is an audio-recording of a kastom stori about the rat and the kingfisher, who make a canoe out of a pawpaw fruit to reach another island. The main appeal of the story lies in the increasingly outrageous behaviour of the rat.
		The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
		The rat and the kingfisher are playing together. When they see another island across the sea, they want to go there. They carve out a pawpaw to be their boat, but in the middle of the sea, the rat gets hungry and starts eating the fruit. Despite the warnings of the kingfisher, the rat bites a hole into the fruit, which starts sinking. The kingfisher flies away and the rat appeals to various animals of the sea for help. A turtle agrees to rescue it and carries it to the shore on its head. The rat shits onto the turtle's head, before it jumps off to the shore. The enraged turtle then calls for a tidal wave to kill the rat and the rat dies.
		Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
		JM has assisted at most of the transcriptions and translations of the recordings in Daakaka, being a very gifted informant. He has spend part of his education in the country's capital Vila.
Format:		image/jpeg
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD5-6
Publisher:		Manfred Krifka
		Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		Animals
		Daakaka language
		Dakaka
Subject (ISO639):		bpa
Type:		image
		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
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CD5-6
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		JM. 2009-09-07. Manfred Krifka.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific