Nabu - Balawaia - Lexico Stats

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Item ID	TD1-M003 (Collection Details)
Title	Balawaia - Lexico Stats
Description	Balawaia (Rigo) -- 1. Kemabolo Village (Raga Kopi 27 yrs) -- - SAW's list -- - Story in Vernacular about informant's work as Patrol officer. -- - Story by Bale Kalai (Kemabolo Vill.) 1. Balawaia Lexicon A list of words organised and grouped. Motu language was used to support English word in the interviews. a) Parts of the body - Head, Hair, Forehead, Eye, Nose, Ear, Tooth, Tongue, Chin, Throat, Neck, Mouth, Shoulder, Elbow, Palm of the hand, Finger, Chest, Breast of a woman, Back, Thigh, Knee, Sole of the foot, Skin, Hair on my body b) Sun/moon/star/sky/cloud c) Precipitation: fog/rain d) Water/river/lake e) Ground /stone/stand/mountain f) Bush/garden g) Fence/wind/wind blows/fire/smoke/ashes/path h) Tree - parts of a tree. i) Food j) Domestic animals - Pig k) Short sentences: -I sleep in the house -I lie on the ground -I see it -I hear it -I cry -I sing l) Numbers 2. Somewhere in Sepik Province: A story about the informant’s life. Customs - marriage Some of you probably know me, we are Barawaia. I am telling you my story about a trip that I made. That place is far away. I got on a plane to get to that place, 4, 5 hours. I went from Moresby, to Lae, to Madang, Madang to Wewak. Like I said, it was 5 hours, the land was far away. All my relatives, you will think that I am lying but I am telling you what I saw. There are only eight villages, and their way of life is different. If we compare our lives to theirs, their life is not good. I kind of felt sorry for them. I am saying that because some people walked around without clothes. Their custom is different from ours. Their way of making gardens is different from ours. Two people will talk and agree and then they will make a garden. Because their forests are bog, they chop down one tree and then plant their taros and bananas around the stump of this tree. Their gardens are not big. We have a variety of bananas, they do not. They eat these food with greens and bamboo shoots. They can’t catch protein because there aren’t many of them. They do not work together. We do things together. They have a lot of protein but they cannot kill them because they work alone. Their houses are not big. Their houses are made on the ground so their floor is the ground. They make their fire in the house and their staple diet is sago. That is why they do not really make gardens. They do not marry until they have gray hair, then they marry small girls. When a girl is born, they go and tell the parents that that is their wife. When the child is walking, the mother gives the child to the husband. The husband looks after her until she is old enough for him to marry her. Because he is an older man, he dies first. His younger brother then marries the widow. 3. Marriage for the people of Balawaia When we want a woman, we go and leave gifts with the parents of the girl. We tell them our intentions. If the parents say yes, every time we find something, we bring it to her house. For one whole year that is what we do. At the end of that period, they give us the woman. Then we cook, her parents to cook, and they bring it to us man. When all these is over, we do the big payment. We put food and money and pigs. When a boy is born, the father and mother will dress that child up when he is old and they will take this boy with gifts to the brothers of the wife. We will not fight each other because of that woman. Our friendship will be forever. Transcribed by Eileen Bobone (Steven Gagau, January 2021)
Origination date	1966-01-01
Origination date free form	1965-1966 (inferred)
Archive link	https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/TD1/M003
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Collector	Tom Dutton Find similar
Countries	Papua New Guinea - PG To view related information on a country, click its name
Language as given	Balawaia
Subject language(s)	Sinaugoro - snc To view related information on a language, click its name
Content language(s)	Sinaugoro - snc To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect	Balawaia
Region / village	Kemabolo Village, Rigo subdistrict

Originating university	Australian National University
Operator	Frank Davey
Data Categories	lexicon primary text
Data Types	Sound
Discourse type	narrative
Roles	Tom Dutton : recorder Bale Kalai : speaker Raga Kopi : speaker Steven Gagau : data_inputter Eileen Bobone : transcriber
DOI	10.4225/72/56FD3D6DBB726
Cite as	Tom Dutton (collector), Tom Dutton (recorder), Bale Kalai (speaker), Raga Kopi (speaker), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Eileen Bobone (transcriber), 1966. Balawaia - Lexico Stats. MPEG/VND.WAV. TD1-M003 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56FD3D6DBB726

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Collection Information

Collection ID	TD1
Collection title	Papua New Guinean Languages
Description	A collection of audio recordings from a number of languages of Papua New Guinea and Australia. Includes Tok Pisin, Motu, Hiri Motu, Toaripi, Opao, Orokolo, Kanju, Kaipi, Boera, Maipua, Purari (Koriki), Fore, Orokaiva, Notu (Ewage-Notu), Grass Koiari, Nara (Lala), Wahgi, Raepa Tati (Kaki Ae), Ouma, Mailu, Managalasi, Koita, Aomie, Barai, Rabuka, Rumu, Kibiri, Mountain Koiali, Koitabu, Mekeo, Suau, Toura, Abadi, Barai, Maria, Kuanua, Sinaugoro, Uare, Aomie, Ese, Baruga, Maisin, Umanakaina, Kanasi, Dawawa, Doga, Abau, Domu, Daga, Yareba, Magori, Tauade and Yele. Some language more that one dialect is present. Text types include stories, songs, basic elicitation, comparative work, radio recordings, language lessons, discussion. Also includes a lecture by K. L. Pike, recordings from ABC radio, recordings of Black American English (Tim Shopen), One recording of Bislama (Vanuatu), a recording of the 1977 Australian Museum conference, bird calls and data on Queensland pidgin, a recording in Kaandju (Australia), as well as data on Torres Strait English for the Queensland Speech Survey.
Countries	Australia - AU Fiji - FJ Papua New Guinea - PG Solomon Islands - SB United States - US Vanuatu - VU To view related information on a country, click its name
Languages	Arifama-Miniafia - aai Abau - aau Aiome - aki Ömie - aom Arapesh, Bumbita - aon Barai - bbb Binandere - bhg Bislama - bis Baruga - bjz Doga - dgg Daga - dgz Domu - dof Toura - don Dawawa - dww English - eng Fore - for Umanakaina - gdn Gimi - gim Ginuman - gnm Motu, Hiri - hmo Hula - hul Purari - iar Dima - jma Kanju - kbe Koiari, Grass - kbk Abadi - kbt Rumu - klq Koiali, Mountain - kpx Doromu-Koki - kqc Koitabu - kqi Kuanua - ksd Kuni - kse Uare - ksj Kuot - kto Kuman - kue Lau - llu Maisin - mbq Ese - mcq Maria - mds Melpa - med Mekeo - mek Motu - meu Mailu - mgu Mapena - mnm Maiwa - mti Ewage-Notu - nou Lala - nrz Onjob - onj Opao - opo Orokolo - oro Ouma - oum Pijin - pis Kibiri - prm Gapapaiwa - pwg Sinaugoro - snc Kanasi - soq Suau - swp Kaki Ae - tbd Torres Strait Creole - tcs Tigak - tgc Tok Pisin - tpi Toaripi - tqo Tauade - ttd Tairuma - uar Ubir - ubr Wahgi - wgi Yele - yle Yoba - yob Yareba - yrb Magori - zgr Multiple languages - mul Undetermined language - und No linguistic content - zxx To view related information on a language, click its name

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