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Recorded Event: Meeting of the school committee

Type: Conversation, Meeting

Primary Speech Variety: Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety

Secondary Speech Varieties: Tok Pisin

Date: 1998-11-10 Location: Wautogik Duration: 120 minutes

Description:

Note: Conversation dominated by Jacob Sonin

Note: Very little of the TP transcribed

Participants

  1. Harry Sakagu · Primary, (M : c 40) Wautogik ~ some Arapesh with some effort
  2. Herman Wɨcɨm · Primary, (M : c 40) Wautogik ~ Almost fluent Arapesh, grade 6 education, trained with SIL to teach the vernacular preschool
  3. Jacob Sonin · Primary, (M : c 60) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, very good English
  4. Lise Dobrin · Researcher, (F : 32) ~ American linguist, born Chicago 1966. Graduate student (linguistics, University of Chicago).
  5. Scola Suonin · Secondary, (F : 50) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, educated to grade 1
  6. Tony Nindim · Primary, (M : 42) Wautogik ~ Educated to grade 6 or 10 (conflicting notes). Worked at the Ok Tedi mine in the past.

Tapes

Cassette cover scans (click to enlarge)

tape 07 (A and B) tape 08 (A and B)

WAV/ELAN Files

  1. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 3a
  2. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 1b
  3. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 2b
  4. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 3b
  5. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 4a
  6. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 4b
  7. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 2a
  8. Meeting of the School Committee - Part 1a