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YPG1-20191120_02
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Title Cave excursion
Description xɑ̌tɯ̀ excursion. filmed whole ascension, part of cave exploration and most of the descent. Luodie ecohistory and geography. Singing. Honghe vs Yuanjiang Phola.
Origination date 2019-11-20
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/YPG1/20191120_02
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Collector
Manuel David Gonzalez Perez
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Countries
China - CN
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Language as given Phola
Subject language(s)
Phola - ypg
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Content language(s)
Phola - ypg
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Dialect
Region / village Luodie village in Yuanjiang County, Yunnan
Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Event
Discourse type interactive_discourse
Roles Hui Ming Li : speaker
H ZL : speaker
DOI 10.26278/P6A3-RP37
Cite as Manuel David Gonzalez Perez (collector), Hui Ming Li (speaker), H ZL (speaker), 2019. Cave excursion. MPEG/VND.WAV/MP4/MXF. YPG1-20191120_02 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/P6A3-RP37
Content Files (94)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
YPG1-20191120_02-H2na.mp3 audio/mpeg 20.8 MB 00:22:41.819
YPG1-20191120_02-H2na.wav audio/vnd.wav 748 MB 00:22:41.809
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nb.mp3 audio/mpeg 20.1 MB 00:21:58.460
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nb.wav audio/vnd.wav 725 MB 00:21:58.440
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nc.mp3 audio/mpeg 25 MB 00:27:20.79
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nc.wav audio/vnd.wav 901 MB 00:27:20.59
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nd.mp3 audio/mpeg 14.9 MB 00:16:13.173
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nd.wav audio/vnd.wav 535 MB 00:16:13.152
YPG1-20191120_02-H2ne.mp3 audio/mpeg 47.1 MB 00:51:23.420
YPG1-20191120_02-H2ne.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.65 GB 00:51:23.400
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nf.mp3 audio/mpeg 28.3 MB 00:30:52.690
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nf.wav audio/vnd.wav 1020 MB 00:30:52.680
YPG1-20191120_02-H2ng.mp3 audio/mpeg 29.5 MB 00:32:14.529
YPG1-20191120_02-H2ng.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.04 GB 00:32:14.500
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nh.mp3 audio/mpeg 12.7 MB 00:13:49.160
YPG1-20191120_02-H2nh.wav audio/vnd.wav 456 MB 00:13:49.139
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8a.mp3 audio/mpeg 9.64 MB 00:10:31.543
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8a.wav audio/vnd.wav 347 MB 00:10:31.530
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8b.mp3 audio/mpeg 18.7 MB 00:20:24.759
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8b.wav audio/vnd.wav 673 MB 00:20:24.720
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8c.mp3 audio/mpeg 3.49 MB 00:03:48.841
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8c.wav audio/vnd.wav 126 MB 00:03:48.820
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8d.mp3 audio/mpeg 14.8 MB 00:16:08.446
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YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8e.mp3 audio/mpeg 6.13 MB 00:06:41.718
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YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8f.mp3 audio/mpeg 13.7 MB 00:15:00.475
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YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8g.mp3 audio/mpeg 10.4 MB 00:11:19.504
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8g.wav audio/vnd.wav 373 MB 00:11:19.466
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8h.mp3 audio/mpeg 2.91 MB 00:03:10.414
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8h.wav audio/vnd.wav 105 MB 00:03:10.400
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YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8i.wav audio/vnd.wav 531 MB 00:16:05.418
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8j.mp3 audio/mpeg 2.42 MB 00:02:38.336
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8j.wav audio/vnd.wav 87.2 MB 00:02:38.314
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8k.mp3 audio/mpeg 3.89 MB 00:04:14.675
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8k.wav audio/vnd.wav 140 MB 00:04:14.656
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8l.mp3 audio/mpeg 8.74 MB 00:09:32.455
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8l.wav audio/vnd.wav 315 MB 00:09:32.437
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8m.mp3 audio/mpeg 13.7 MB 00:15:00.683
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8m.wav audio/vnd.wav 495 MB 00:15:00.650
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8n.mp3 audio/mpeg 3.53 MB 00:03:51.192
YPG1-20191120_02-intQ8n.wav audio/vnd.wav 127 MB 00:03:51.168
YPG1-20191120_02-MIUIa.mp4 video/mp4 351 MB 00:02:26.223
YPG1-20191120_02-MIUIa.mxf application/mxf 5 GB
YPG1-20191120_02-MIUIb.mp4 video/mp4 510 MB 00:03:32.569
YPG1-20191120_02-MIUIb.mxf application/mxf 6.88 GB
YPG1-20191120_02-Q4a.mp4 video/mp4 20.7 MB 00:00:06.208
YPG1-20191120_02-Q4a.mxf application/mxf 35.6 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID YPG1
Collection title Recordings of Phola
Description This collection comprises a wide range of audio and video materials documenting the linguistic, communicative and cultural practices of the Phola people. The majority of these materials were recorded by Manuel David González Pérez between 2018 and 2020 in Luodie village in Yuanjiang County of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China as part of his PhD in Linguistics at the Australian National University. Exceptions include some video recordings created by local community members themselves within the framework of the above-mentioned PhD project.

The Phola language was first brought to the attention of the international scholarly audience by Jamin Pelkey, who completed a PhD thesis (2008) on the sociolinguistic distribution of little known language varieties of Southern Yunnan Province. It was assigned the ISO-639-3 code [ypg] which is adopted in this collection as well.

However, all the data included in this collection comes exclusively from a single Phola speaking village and great care should be exercised in making assumptions about linguistic or cultural sameness. Preliminary in-situ observations by the compiler suggest that different Phola villages exhibit sometimes significant differences in their phonologies, and to a lesser extent their vocabularies and even grammatical patterns. Nonetheless, mutual intelligibility appears to be warranted for all Phola villages currently known to both the compiler and Luodie villagers themselves.

For an introduction to the Phola language and its speakers, the visitor is referred to González Pérez 2022's PhD thesis, which is titled "Grammar, dimension and deixis in Phola: A Tibeto-Burman language of China.". Chapter in particular should be of interest to most visitors as it surveys various aspects of Phola culture, both material and symbolic. This is followed by a sketch grammar, which should be of interest to descriptive and typologically minded linguists alike. The thesis also includes conceptually orientated chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of words encoding dimensional and spatial contrasts, which should be of interest to linguists, anthropologists and other social scientists.

For those visiting the collection for the first time, the most valuable entry point is probably YPG1-20100131_05, which is an audio recording of a traditional story of cultural significance to Luodie Pholas. This is the story of "the fallen men cliff" which narrates the heroic defence of Luodie village by a mythical character who is said to have single-handedly warded off an incursion of bandits. An Elan file including a full transcription in International Phonetic Alphabet and a preliminary working romanisation is provided as well as translations into Mandarin Chinese, English and five other languages (French, German, Hindi, Russian and Spanish).

Those with an interest in ethnomusicological and ethnochoreographic issues are advised to consult YPG1-20181218_06 through to YPG1-20181218_09, YPG1-20191215_02 and YPG1-20191229_04.

Metadata conventions
The file naming is undergirded by the following conventions:

First the collection name is given as YPG1 as this is the first major project of documentation targeting the Phola speech community.
Then a date is provided in the format YYYYMMDD followed by the number of the recording event in chronological order. For example, the first recording goes back to the sixth of December of 2018. Given that four recording events were carried out on that day, there are four items corresponding to that date:

YPG1-20181206_01
YPG1-20181206_02
YPG1-20181206_03
YPG1-20181206_04

The naming system includes information on the microphones and recording device involved. This is sometimes followed by lowercase letters indicating separate files created within the same recording event. Thus, for example, on the 20th of November of 2019, many files were created during an excursion to Hatu Cave, a site of cultural significance for the Pholas. Finally, the file extension indicates the file type (e.g., whether it is an audio file or a video file)

The following file name is explicated as a practical illustration:

YPG1-20191120_02-H2na.wav
Audio recording belonging to the first collection of Phola materials corresponding to the second recording event of the 20th of November of 2019. This audio recording was the first file to be created by the H2n hand-held audio recorder.

The full list of abbreviations is as follows:

ext = external microphone
ext1 = external microphone number 1
ext2 = external microphone number 2
int = internal microphone

H5 = Zoom audiorecorder H5
H2n = Hand-held Zoom audioecorder H2n
Q8 = Zoom audio and video recorder Q8
XA20 = Canon audio and video recorder XA20
MIUI = Xiaomi mobile phone audio and video recorder

A small number of audio files stemming from WeChat audio messages have also been included. These are indicated as such by using 'wechat' instead of a recorder code.

Countries
China - CN
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Languages
Chinese, Mandarin - cmn
Nisu, Southern - nsd
Naga, Sumi - nsm
Nasal - nsy
Spanish - spa
Phola - ypg
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Access Information
Edit access Julia Colleen Miller
Tina Gregor
Manuel David Gonzalez Perez
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Data access narrative Waiting on advice from depositor
Metadata
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