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Collection ID NM1
Title Maring language (PNG)
Description "tapes of Maring language speakers (fringe Western Highlands and Madang Provinces PNG)- These are a mix or recordings of meetings, dispujtes, interviews and singing. The tapes date back to 1979, 1987 and 1991. I cannot pretend that Maring is an endangered language. Certainly in my experience it is in rude good health although it may well be changing under the impact of highlands Tok Pisin. On the other hand I think the tapes reflect what is now an historical record of the language from a very considerable variety of speakers and it is one that in the long run I woujld like to return to the Kwima community themselves. In this regard it may well be that the tapes would provide something of a record of certain rhetorical styles of speech making (see Merlan and Rumsey 1991) that may well be undergoing radical transformation or in decline." Neil MacLean
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/NM1
Collector
Neil Maclean
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Originating university University of Sydney
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Maring - mbw
Tok Pisin - tpi
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DOI 10.4225/72/56E9759034885
Cite as Neil Maclean (collector), 1978. Maring language (PNG). Collection NM1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Other Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E9759034885

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Edit access Neil Maclean
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Items in Collection (37)

Item Title Actions
1979_11 Village kot installations meeting View
1979_12 Kwima meeting View
1979_13 Olban B.P View
1979_14 Ndega Meeting + Presentation View
1979_15 Poneral Tchasa View
1979_16 Sing sing View
1979_17 Sing sing View
1979_18 Sing sing 3rd View
1979_19 Rawens/kondagai compensation View
1979_20 Kwimun's store court View

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