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Title: The origin of kava
Country: Vanuatu
Genre: Discourse
Format: audio/x-wav
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Language: Dakaka
Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0021-6CDE-7
Description: The story explains the origin of the kava plant and its use as a drug. As two lovers who haven't had a single fight during their long and fulfilling marriage get old, the wife tells her husband one day that she feels she is going to die. She instructs him to bury her body nearby the house and that a plant is going to grow from her grave. When this plant has grown big, he should take its roots, grind them and mix them with water. Then he should invite all the chiefs of the area to drink. They should repeat this procedure each evening, and whenever they drink the kava, they should think of her. Thus, the drug is a token of her memory to her husband.
Description: The senior male speaker tells the story of the origin of the kava plant, the source for the kava drink.
Description: The story explains the origin of the kava plant and its use as a drug. As two lovers who haven't had a single fight during their long and fulfilling marriage get old, the wife tells her husband one day that she feels she is going to die. She instructs him to bury her body nearby the house and that a plant is going to grow from her grave. When this plant has grown big, he should take its roots, grind them and mix them with water. Then he should invite all the chiefs of the area to drink. They should repeat this procedure each evening, and whenever they drink the kava, they should think of her. Thus, the drug is a token of her memory to her husband.

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- Name : Origin of Kava
- Title : The origin of kava
- Date : 2009-11-04
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  Description : The senior male speaker tells the story of the origin of the kava plant, the source for the kava drink.
- Location
  Continent : Oceania
  
  Country : Vanuatu
  
  Address : Sesivi
- Project
  Name : Ambrym
  
  Title : Languages of Southwest Ambrym
  
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  Contact
  
  Name : Manfred Krifka
  
  Address : ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, D-10117 Berlin
  
  Email : krifka@zas.gwz-berlin.de
  
  Organisation : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
  
  descriptions
  
  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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  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 explains the origin of the kava plant and its use as a drug. As two lovers who haven't had a single fight during their long and fulfilling marriage get old, the wife tells her husband one day that she feels she is going to die. She instructs him to bury her body nearby the house and that a plant is going to grow from her grave. When this plant has grown big, he should take its roots, grind them and mix them with water. Then he should invite all the chiefs of the area to drink. They should repeat this procedure each evening, and whenever they drink the kava, they should think of her. Thus, the drug is a token of her memory to her husband.
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  Description : This elderly is an senior member of his community in Sesivi. He has a substantial knowledge about traditional customs and kastom stories and is greatly concerned with the conservation of the language. He has created several neologisms in order to refer to imported and novel items such as plates, radios or cell phones without using words of Bislama or English.
  
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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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  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 speaker is in his late twenties and lives in Sesivi. He works in the health center in Baiap and has received a good French education at the local school in Sesivi. He is very much concerned with the preservation of his mother tongue.
  
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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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  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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Citation

[author(s)]. (2009). Item "Origin of Kava" in collection "West Ambrym Languages". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0021-6CDE-7. (Accessed 2023-11-28)

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