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oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI508898

Metadata
Title:06Aug9701S6
Tsafiki Documentation Project
Coverage:Ecuador
Date:1997-08-06
Description:A short audio recording collected by PU6 in which S1 tells the story of a woman buried alive.
A short audio file with text, collected by PU6 in which S1 tells the story of a woman buried alive. The incident is related to an encounter with a whale and subsequent negligence in remedying the situation with a tree. After the story PU6 asks S1 some questions about the story.
The story and interview are conducted solely in Tsafiki.
PU6 is a forty-four year old native Tsafiki speaker. He has only had one year of formal education but is literate in both Tsafiki and Spanish, and has worked for more than twenty years translating and transcribing Tsafiki texts. He first learned to read and write Tsafiki with the SIL linguist Bruce Moore and than worked with the Banco Central of Guayaquil with Robert Mix on a documentation project. Tsafiki is his first and dominate language, although he is also fluent in the local dialect of Spanish. He is married and has two children. He is extremely competent and can manage all the computer programs used in this project and has a basic understanding of linguistic analysis.
S1 is 70 year old native speaker of Tsafiki with a limited knowledge of Spanish. She was born in Chiwilpe but has lived in Cogomita for most of her adult life. She is a trained storyteller and has a great deal of knowledge concerning Tsachi culture. She has no formal education. She is married to U1 and has eight children, several grandchildren and several great-grandchilsren..
Format:audio/mp4
audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI508898
Identifier (URI):http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI508898%23
Publisher:Connie Dickinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Story
Colorado language
Tsafiki
Subject (ISO639):cof
Type:audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI508898
DateStamp:  2009-08-03
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Search Info

Citation: n.a. 1997-08-06. Connie Dickinson.
Terms: area_Americas country_EC iso639_cof

Inferred Metadata

Country: Ecuador
Area: Americas


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