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Snake Mother
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- Name : Snake Mother
- Title : Snake Mother
- Date : 2009-10-15
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- Description : The senior male speaker tells a long story of a young man whose mother is a gigantic snake, which turns out to be problematic when he wants to marry.
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- Continent : Oceania
- Country : Vanuatu
- Address : Emyotungan
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- Name : Ambrym
- Title : Languages of Southwest Ambrym
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- Name : Manfred Krifka
- Address : ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
- Email : krifka@zas.gwz-berlin.de
- Organisation : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
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- Description : 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.
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- Key : Magic
- Key : Myth
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- Genre : Discourse
- SubGenre : Narrative
- Task : Unspecified
- Modalities : speech
- Subject : Unspecified
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- Interactivity : non-interactive
- PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
- Involvement : Unspecified
- SocialContext : Controlled environment
- EventStructure : Monologue
- Channel : Face to Face
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- Id : ISO639-3:bpa
- Name : Dakaka
- Dominant : Unspecified
- SourceLanguage : Unspecified
- TargetLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : Daakaka is an Austronesian language spoken in one area of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, which reaches from Emyotungan to Sanesup. It has about 1200 speakers and is still aquired as the first language by children.
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- Description : The story is about a young man whose mother is a gigantic snake and lives in a cave. He regularily goes out to dances in other parts of the island where he impresses the young women who also attend the dance. He also sleeps in a man sized cocoon and knows a song which attracts young women irresistibly to him. Two such young women thereupon declare their desire to marry him and the three of them go to see his mother. When the women see the gigantic snake, one of them runs, the other pees herself but stays. She invites her family to come and attend the wedding ceremony. The snake advises her son to create gigantic amounts of food and goods out of the leaves of a cycad. When the guests leave with their gifts, the snake utters a curse that makes the sea go wild. The canoes shipwreck, all the goods are scattered and land at the different islands, which explains why certain plants and goods are only to be found on some islands but not on others today. The snake is said to still live in a cave on Ambrym to this day.
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- Role : Consultant
- Name : FT
- FullName : FT
- Code : FT
- FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
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- Sex : Male
- Education : Unspecified
- Anonymized : true
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- EstimatedAge : Unspecified
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- Description : This informant from Emyotungan is a fieldworker of the Cultural Center of Vanuatu and has been involved in attempts to conserve the language prior to the project. As many of the informants, he is very much concerned with the growing influence of Bislama on the language and is trying to avoid using loan words. His knowledge of stories and his commitment to preserve the language have been very helpful.
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- Id : ISO639-3:bpa
- Name : Dakaka
- MotherTongue : true
- PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
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- Id : ISO639-3:bis
- Name : Bislama
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : Bislama is a creole with English as the main lexifier language and structural similarities to other Austronesian languages. It is one of three national languages of Vanuatu, together with English and French. It is the main language used in primary education, the parliament and church service and is widely used in the news media. It is the most important medium for communication among speakers with different mother tongues.
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- Role : Linguist
- Name : von Prince
- FullName : Kilu von Prince
- Code : KvP
- FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
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- Sex : Unspecified
- Education : Unspecified
- Anonymized : Unspecified
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- EstimatedAge : Unspecified
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- Name : Kilu von Prince
- Address : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
- Email : prince@zas.gwz-berlin.de
- Organisation : ZAS, Humboldt University Berlin
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- Description : 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.
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- Id : ISO639-3:deu
- Name : German
- MotherTongue : true
- PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : German is von Prince's mother tongue.
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- Id : ISO639-3:bpa
- Name : Dakaka
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : Kilu has aquired a good working knowledge of the language during her first field trip, allowing her to partly transcribe the recordings and take part in casual conversations.
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- Id : ISO639-3:bis
- Name : Bislama
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : Bislama is the most important language for interaction with the communities apart from the local languages.
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- Role : Annotator
- Name : JM
- FullName : JM
- Code : JM
- FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
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- Sex : Male
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- years : 22
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- Description : 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.
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- Id : ISO639-3:eng
- Name : English
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : JM has learned English at school and speaks it well enough to communicate with tourists who do not speak Bislama.
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- Id : ISO639-3:bpa
- Name : Dakaka
- MotherTongue : Unspecified
- PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : Daakaka is JM's mother tongue.
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- Id : ISO639-3:bis
- Name : Bislama
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : Bislama is the most important means of communication with speakers of other languages.
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Citation
JM. (2009). Item "Snake Mother" in collection "West Ambrym Languages". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0021-6CCF-3. (Accessed 2023-11-30)
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