Collection details
Collection ID SUY1
Title Kagate (Nepal)
Description This collection includes audio-video recordings of Syuba, spoken in the Ramechhap district of Nepal. It also contains a smaller collection of audio-video recordings of Ilam Yolmo, a mutually intelligible variety spoken in a different district of Nepal. These collections have been archived together because of their similarities and because they were recorded as part of the same research project. Many of the recordings are monologues, interviews or conversations. ELAN transcriptions are available for a subset of the collection, and will continue to be added as work on the collection progresses. There are also some experimental and elicited data, as well as supplementary materials including scanned notes, FLEx files, GPS data and publications about the language. This project is still in active development until June 2017.This collection includes audio-video recordings of Syuba, spoken in the Ramechhap district of Nepal. It also contains a smaller collection of audio-video recordings of Ilam Yolmo, a mutually intelligible variety spoken in a different district of Nepal. These collections have been archived together because of their similarities and because they were recorded as part of the same research project. Many of the recordings are monologues, interviews or conversations. ELAN transcriptions are available for a subset of the collection, and will continue to be added as work on the collection progresses. There are also some experimental and elicited data, as well as supplementary materials including scanned notes, FLEx files, GPS data and publications about the language. This project is still in active development until June 2017.

The language is listed in the ISO codes as Kagate, but speakers in Ramechhap are increasingly using the name Syuba (Kagate is a Nepal word, while Syuba is the same name in their own language). The Yolmo variety spoken in Ilam is very similar to Syuba in Ramechhap, but the speaker have a history of referring to themselves and their language as Yolmo, which means it is categorised under a different ISO code.

Deposit contents
The majority of bundles in this collection are audio-video recordings. There are 8 and a half hours of narrative, conversations and interviews which can be broken down further by genre:

3 hours of data about the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal
2 hours of personal narratives other than earthquake
2 hours of historical narrative
1.5 hours of fiction narrative and two

There are also:

1 hour of descriptive texts
1.5 hours of song
3 hours of conversation
1.5 hours of stimuli tasks
7 hours of elicitation, which mostly covers tone, evidentiality and verb use
1 hour of video of people performing culturally important activities

There are also over 4.5 hours of recordings of people giving their consent for their recordings to be shared. While this is almost entirely in Nepali, and not Syuba, it contains a wealth of ethnographic information.

Approximately 3 hours of this data are in Ilam Yolmo, and the remainder are in Syuba. As of June 2016 there are interlinearised and translated ELAN transcriptions for 2 hours of Syuba data, and another 1 hours of transcriptions with Nepali translations. ELAN transcriptions and interlinearisations will continue to be added as they are processed.

Acknowledgement
Funding for the creation of this collection came from ELDP, Firebird Foundation, NTU's Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Stack Exchange and The Awesome Foundation (Ottawa).
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/SUY1
Collector
Lauren Gawne
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Originating university University of Melbourne
Countries
Nepal - NP
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Languages
Tibetan - bod
Nepali - nep
Kagate - syw
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Region / village
DOI 10.4225/72/56E976A071650
Cite as Lauren Gawne (collector), 2009. Kagate (Nepal). Collection SUY1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E976A071650
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Edit access Amanda Harris
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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Items in Collection (53)

Item Title Actions
091125 Swadesh list - 100 words View
101011 Story: Jackal and Crow View
120318 Syntax questions and transcribing Jackal and Crow View
140123 Narratives from Karma Tsering and elicitation with Pasang Maya View
140125 Elicitation: evidentials View
140126 Narratives, songs and history View
140127 Narratives, songs, history and life histories View
140128 Songs, stories, elicitation (phonetics) View
140129 Stories View
140130 Interview: Sabina and Sangbu on using Aikuma View
140204 Elicitation: Tones View
141007 Elicitation: similar words and constructions View
141009 Elicitation: negation and tone, non-past View
141010 Songs and narratives by Larkel Syuba View
141011 BB and Sangmu Syuba discussing Chang and Marriage and Datsering Lama discussing dairy View
141014 Elicitation: negation and tone, past View
141022 Narratives and conversation Sangbu Syuba View
141026 Elicitation: months, days, years, villages and clans View
160323 Consent recordings. View
160324 Consent recordings View
160325 Consent recordings View
160411 Hidden Object tasks View
160413 Elicitation: Tense, Copulas, Animals and Plants View
160414 Family Story picture task, Earthquake interviews: Sangbu, Kali, Piza View
160415 Twenty Questions game, Earthquake Interview: Bibi and Lijiang View
160417 Earthquake interview: Ningmar, Starting College: Arati View
160419 Consent: Jethi, Dhudi, Dolma. Eathquake Interview: Dhudi, Dolma View
160420 Earthquake Interviews, local history, life stories in Dhungare View
160421 Wedding: event View
160422 Earthquake Interviews, Language attitudes - in Dil Kharka View
160424 Earthquake Interview, child directed language View
160425 Earthquake Interviews, Sharman's tools, the old days, making butter View
160426 Devi Puja in Dhungare View
160427 Earthquake Interview, Schooling, 20 questions game, Secret Language View
160428 History of Nobra Monastry, Tibetan Chant, Earthquake Interview - Nobra View
160429 Local history, Earthquake Interviews - Ningale View
160430 Honey gathering, Earthquake Interview - Phedi View
160505 Ilam Yolmo - oral histories, songs View
160506 Ilam Yolmo - songs, oral histories View
160507 Ilam Yolmo - oral histories and attitudes View
160511 Syuba verb discussion View
FLEX FLEX files View
Geodata Geolocation data for villages and paths View
Publications Publications about Kagate View
administration Documentation administration documents View
documentaries Edited short documentary films View
experimentmetaphor Tone metaphor experiment View
experimenttone Tone perception experiment View
images Images View
metadata Collection metadata View
notebooks scanned images of notebooks used with recordings View
participants Participant metadata View
picturebooks Picture books in Syuba View

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