tci20121019-04 - Se zokwasi

This is a recording of Abia Bai, Sékri Karémbu and Sitau Karémbu during a dance for a wedding feast. It is part of a public speaking genre called se zokwasi ('bark language'). Holding a bark torch, the speakers circle the dance ground during the speech. Se zokwasi takes place while the guests are taking breaks from singing and dancing. Such speeches may contain general announcements to the public, but often they are often used to address and settle problems, express opinions publicly, explain political circumstances, or to make accusations. The recording was made in Rouku village, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

The dataset includes:

• audio file (tci20121008a-03.wav)
• transcription file (tci20121008a-03.eaf)

Note that the transcription file in this record is not up to date! For an updated version of this file, please download the most recent version of the Komnzo text corpus as a zip-file under 10.5281/zenodo.1306246

The material was recorded by Christian Döhler as part of a language documentation project for his PhD. The project was located at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Canberra. For the most part it was funded by the DOBES project of the Volkswagen Foundation.