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Documentation of Mavea

Documentation of Mavea

Language: Mavea [mkv]

Depositor: Valérie Guérin

Location: Vanuatu

Summary of deposit

This deposit consists of annotated audio recordings of speakers of Mavea, spoken in Vanuatu, resulting from fieldwork conducted between June 2005 and December 2007.

The picture comes from a picture book illustrated by Gabriel Torno, entitled ‘The Bird Story&rsquo, a story in which two birds fight for a hat. The deposit contains recordings of several different speakers narrating this story: to listen, click on ‘Bird Story’ under Topic in the left hand panel.

Deposit contents

The collection contains over 160 audio files, many of which come with time-aligned transcriptions and gloss in English.

Genres include narratives, chronicles, and personal histories.

The language contains three linguo-labials. They are represented in the orthography as p̋, v̋, and m̋.

Basic info

Catalogue title: 
Documentation of Mavea
Supporting project(s): 
Discovering Mafea: texts, grammar, and lexicon
Documentation period: 
01/06/2005 - 31/12/2006
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
Summary of content: 

The collection contains audio and written documentation of Mavea, an endangered language spoken in Vanuatu. Audio documents (such as narratives, personal histories, and Swadesh list) are in wave format. They come with related Transcriber and Toolbox files, for time-aligned transcription and gloss in English.

Group represented: 
Mavea speaking community, located on Mavea Island, and Deproma, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu.
Location: 
Recordings were all created in Vanuatu. Locations include: Vunopuma, Saoroi, and Vunopua (on Mavea Island), Deproma (Espiritu Santo Island), Port Vila (Efate Island), Aore and Tanna Islands.
Language name: 
Mavea
Language code: 
mkv
Language information: 
Mavea, also known as Mafea. Gloss and translation in English, with some Bislama.

Depositor

Depositor(s): 
Valérie Guérin

Deposit

Catalogue description: 
... over 160 recordings of speakers of Mavea, spoken in Vanuatu; many annotated with time-aligned transcriptions and English glosses. Genres include narratives, chronicles, and personal histories.
Summary of deposit: 

This deposit consists of annotated audio recordings of speakers of Mavea, spoken in Vanuatu, resulting from fieldwork conducted between June 2005 and December 2007.

The picture comes from a picture book illustrated by Gabriel Torno, entitled ‘The Bird Story&rsquo, a story in which two birds fight for a hat. The deposit contains recordings of several different speakers narrating this story: to listen, click on ‘Bird Story’ under Topic in the left hand panel.

Deposit contents: 

The collection contains over 160 audio files, many of which come with time-aligned transcriptions and gloss in English.

Genres include narratives, chronicles, and personal histories.

The language contains three linguo-labials. They are represented in the orthography as p̋, v̋, and m̋.

Map: 
Vanuatu
15° 23' 1.8024" S, 167° 13' 54.3972" E
Display image: 

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Comments

Submitted by eg15 on Sat, 25/06/2011 - 23:31.
On September 17, 2010, Peter Austin pointed out to me: "The files labelled .lbl are in Toolbox format but without the relevant .typ file these do not display properly. The depositor should include "Settings" files with the glossed texts so that users can see the materials laid out properly."
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