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Item details
Item ID
AC1-415
Title Solomon Island languages
Description A16636, continued on A16637 -- Side 1: -- Marovo (Austronesian language, southwestern Georgia Island.) -- Malageti (Dialect of Austronesian language Talise, South Guadalcanal Island) -- Bilua (Papuan language of Vella Lavella, Mbava and North Gizo Islands. -- Fataleka (Malaita) (Southern dialect of Austronesian language North Mailatan) -- Ukrainian -- Turkish News (BBC 4.9.48) -- Side 2: -- Kagulu (Possibly a Solomon Islands language (e.g. Kalma). Check required) -- Broadcast speech in: -- - Motu -- - Pidgin -- - Burmese -- - Japanese -- Songs in Motu

MAROVO
* Audio volume fluctuates
* English prompted elicitations: phrases and words
* Exhibition of syllabic phonemes
(** there is one indistinguishable word that has been marked with two asterisks)

SINHALESE
Wordlist from a book by Daniel Jones, 'Sinhalese made easy'
[A2] SINHALA CONTINUED
* Sounds like continuation from end of A1
* Sinhalese elicitations
* Story of the Maina

MALAGETI LANGUAGE - Unable to match this language name with any known Solomon Islands language.
There are some indiscernible english prompts.

VELLA LAVELLA LANGUAGE - (not mentioned in tape notes)
* Elicitations with english prompts
Origination date 1949-09-04
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/AC1/415
URL
Collector
Arthur Capell
Countries To view related information on a country, click its name
Language as given Marovo, Malageti, Bilua, Fataleka (Malaita), Ukrainian, Turkish, Kagulu, Motu, Pidgin, Burmese, Japanese
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
Region / village

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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Frank Davey
Data Categories primary text
song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type
Roles Arthur Capell : recorder
DOI 10.4225/72/56E97E44544E6
Cite as Arthur Capell (collector), Arthur Capell (recorder), 1949. Solomon Island languages. EAF+XML/MPEG/WAV/JPEG/TIFF. AC1-415 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E97E44544E6
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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.
Countries To view related information on a country, click its name
Languages To view related information on a language, click its name
Access Information
Edit access Andrew Taylor
View/Download access Aaron Wade
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Data access narrative
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