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Item details
Item ID
AC1-402
Title Hakka, Malayalam, Rumanian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Burmese,
Description Playing times are in minutes. -- Side 1: Hakka 0-9 - Chinese dialect spoken in many areas of mainland China. -- Malayalam 10-25 - Dravidian language of South India and the Lacadives. -- Rumanian 26-8. -- Japanese 29-30. -- Side 2: Vietnamese 0-12, -- Burmese 13-25. -- Hakka 26-30 - See above. -- Box note dated 2.12.70 states: 'At present Side 2 comes first. Beginning of Vietnamese and most of Japanese lost through breakage'.

SIDE A:
1. Hakka, Chinese dialect.
Twice repeated words
Vowels
Sentences

2. Burmese
Excerpts read from Phonetic Reader & Stuart's Grammar
Informant: Dr. Liang
Initially just sentences but later phrases and passages

SIDE B:
Malayalam:
Segments get increasingly longer until it becomes difficult to distinguish the border between phrases.
Phrase book at the end with english gloss

Romanian:
Words, Phrases and orations.

Japanese:
Not parsed in the Elan file
Origination date 1970-01-01
Origination date free form 1950-1970
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/AC1/402
URL
Collector
Arthur Capell
Countries To view related information on a country, click its name
Language as given Hakka, Malayalam, Rumanian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Burmese,
Subject language(s) To view related information on a language, click its name
Content language(s) To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type
Roles Arthur Capell : recorder
DOI 10.4225/72/56E97E01E0F5F
Cite as Arthur Capell (collector), Arthur Capell (recorder), 1970. Hakka, Malayalam, Rumanian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Burmese,. MPEG/WAV/EAF+XML/JPEG/TIFF. AC1-402 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E97E01E0F5F
Content Files (13)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
AC1-402-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 27.2 MB 00:29:48.109
AC1-402-A.wav audio/wav 491 MB 00:29:48.79
AC1-402-B.eaf application/eaf+xml 176 KB
AC1-402-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 26.8 MB 00:29:22.950
AC1-402-B.wav audio/wav 484 MB 00:29:22.930
AC1-402-IMG_01.jpg image/jpeg 778 KB
AC1-402-IMG_01.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-402-IMG_02.jpg image/jpeg 1.02 MB
AC1-402-IMG_02.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-402-IMG_03.jpg image/jpeg 839 KB
AC1-402-IMG_03.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-402-IMG_04.jpg image/jpeg 1 MB
AC1-402-IMG_04.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID AC1
Collection title Arthur Capell recording collection
Description Recordings from a wide range of languages across South-east Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe.
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Languages To view related information on a language, click its name
Access Information
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View/Download access Aaron Wade
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Data access narrative
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