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Item ID
JH1-001
Title Recording of the Kiwai dialect from Urama Island
Description This material consists of --
a) copies of a series of audiotapes; and --
b) a set of written texts from the same period. --
It was mostly collected in the early to mid sixties, though some goes back to the fifties. I have no record of the exact dates on which the recordings were made. --
Some of the written texts (such as the one entitled Tuoma) have been transcribed from the audiotapes, others were dictated to the writer. There is one text, written by a semi-literate Gope man, which I have left in the author’s own hand along with a few short autograph letters written by Uroma speakers. --
The original audiotapes, the majority of which are 5” BASF reels, remain in my possession. They were digitised to 24 bit, 48 kHz, WAV files by me between 2005 and 2007. I would happy to release the originals for recopying if any of the digital copies are found to be of poor quality. -- The document JH1-001-NOTESKIWAUMAI contains information about the collection and about the language under the following headings:
About the language p.4 -- Location p.4 -- Earlier work on related languages p.4 -- Dialects p.5 -- Phonology p.7 -- Miscellaneous notes on grammar p.13 -- Odd intransitives p.13 -- Number p.16 -- Numerals p.21 -- Imperative p.23 -- Temporal expressions p.24 -- Inclusive, exclusive p.28 -- Verbless sentences p.30 -- Kaupia p.32 -- WH-questions p.32 -- Coordination p.33 -- Suffix –ha p.34 -- Some verbal constructions p.35 -- Relative clauses p.37 -- Some verbal prefixes p.39 -- Number indexation p.42 -- Miscellaneous vocabulary p.44
Origination date 1967-01-01
Origination date free form ca. 1964-1967
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/JH1/001
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Collector
John Harris
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Language as given Kiwai
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Dialect Urama Island
Region / village Urama Island
Originating university Australian National University
Operator John Harris
Data Categories language description
lexicon
primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type
Roles John Harris : interviewer
John Harris : recorder
John Harris : researcher
Pakemane Hinimo-Umani : speaker
Ben Korea-Galbu : speaker
DOI 10.4225/72/56F4051282E0A
Cite as John Harris (collector), John Harris (interviewer, recorder, researcher), Pakemane Hinimo-Umani (speaker), Ben Korea-Galbu (speaker), 1967. Recording of the Kiwai dialect from Urama Island. PDF/RTF/PLAIN. JH1-001 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56F4051282E0A
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JH1-001-NOTESKIWAUMAI.rtf text/rtf 6.87 MB
JH1-001-NOTESKIWAUMAI.txt text/plain 92.2 KB
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Collection Information
Collection ID JH1
Collection title Northeast Kiwai (Papua New Guinea)
Description Audio recordings of Northeast Kiwai (Papua New Guinea). Recordings include mainly narratives, with some minimal pair and lexical item elicitation.
This material consists of
a) copies of a series of audiotapes; and
b) a set of written texts from the same period.
It was mostly collected in the early to mid sixties, though some goes back to the fifties. I have no record of the exact dates on which the recordings were made.
Some of the written texts (such as the one titled Tuoma) have been transcribed from the audiotapes, others were dictated to the writer. There is one text, written by a semi-literate Gope man, which I have left in the author’s own hand along with a few short autograph letters written by Uroma speakers.
The original audiotapes, the majority of which are 5” BASF reels, remain in my possession.

Nearly all the material is in the language spoken at the village called Kivaumai on the map Kikori Papua New Guinea prepared by the Royal Australian Survey Corps in 1979. The village (Ne’edai/Gowo’u) at the time of my visits was located on a pleasant black sand beach on the seaward side of Uramu [sic] Island, situated between Paia Inlet on the west & Era Bay on the east in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea; I understand that this village site was subsequently abandoned, perhaps due to the work of the tireless sea.
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Access Information
Edit access John Harris
James Crippen
View/Download access Alex Muir
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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