A documentation of Gweno: subsistence and traditions among the hills of Kilimanjaro

 

Language	Gweno (ISO639-3:gwe)
Depositor	Alexandrine Dunlap
Affiliation	University of Rochester
Location	Tanzania
Collection ID	0614
Grant ID	SG0580
Funding Body	ELDP
Collection Status	Collection online
Landing Page Handle	http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e169cd7b-e461-4008-a7e6-7e651b387e6d

 

Summary of the collection

English: These recordings focus on documenting natural speech revolving around the topic of subsistence. The corpus is comprised of communicative events, procedural texts, dialogue, narratives, and interviews of farming traditions, and practices used to care for cattle. These recordings are supplemented with audio recordings of grammatical elicitation and wordlists.

Muhtasari wa mkusanyiko

Kiswahili: Rekodi hizi zinalenga katika kurekodi hotuba asilia inayohusu mada ya kujikimu. Kundi hili linajumuisha matukio ya mawasiliano, maandishi ya utaratibu, mazungumzo, masimulizi, na mahojiano ya mila za ukulima, na desturi zinazotumika kutunza ng’ombe. Rekodi hizi huongezewa na rekodi za sauti za uhamasishaji wa kisarufi na orodha za maneno.

 

Group represented

English: This collection is focused on the Gweno people. Historically Gweno was the primary language of the region, however modern-day, the primary language is considered to be Asu (also known as Pare). As an ethnic group, the Gweno people do not consider themselves distinct from the Pare group, they have much of their history and traditions in common. There are no longer any monolingual speakers of Gweno, with most speakers being at minimum trilingual in Gweno, Pare, and Swahili.

Kikundi kilichowakilishwa

Kiswahili: Mkusanyiko huu unalenga watu wa Gweno. Kihistoria Gweno ilikuwa lugha ya msingi ya eneo hilo, hata hivyo lugha ya kisasa inachukuliwa kuwa Asu (pia inajulikana kama Pare). Kama kabila, watu wa Gweno hawajioni kuwa tofauti na kikundi cha Wapare, wana historia na mila zao zinazofanana. Hakuna wazungumzaji wa lugha moja tena wa Gweno, huku wazungumzaji wengi wakiwa angalau lugha tatu katika Kigweno, Kipare na Kiswahili.

 

Language information

English: Gweno, also known as Kighonu, is a Bantu language spoken in the Pare Hills of the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. Gweno is classified as part of the Chaga language group (E65). There are an estimated 2,500 speakers with virtually all speakers considered trilingual.

Taarifa ya lugha
Kiswahili: Gweno, pia inajulikana kama Kighonu, ni lugha ya Kibantu inayozungumzwa katika Milima ya Pare katika mkoa wa Kilimanjaro nchini Tanzania. Gweno ameainishwa kama sehemu ya kikundi cha lugha ya Kichaga (E65). Kuna wastani wa wasemaji 2,500 huku takriban wasemaji wote wakichukuliwa kuwa wa lugha tatu.

 

Collection contents

English: This corpus contains 30 hours of video, 10 hours of which are translated into English and Swahili, 5 of which are transcribed and 4 of which are glossed.

Yaliyomo kwenye mkusanyiko
Kiswahili: Kongamano hili lina saa 30 za video, saa 10 kati yake zimetafsiriwa kwa Kiingereza na Kiswahili, 5 kati ya hizo zimenakiliwa na 4 kati yake zimegawanywa katika sehemu za maneno.

 

Collection history

English: The bulk of the featured recordings were collected in two field trips in 2019 and 2020. From there a majority of the project focused on processing those recordings, developing the translations, transcriptions and glossing alongside grammatical investigation.

Historia ya mkusanyiko
Kiswahili: Wingi wa rekodi zilizoangaziwa zilikusanywa katika safari mbili za uwandani mnamo 2019 na 2020. Kutoka hapo mradi mwingi ulilenga kuchakata rekodi hizo, kutengeneza tafsiri, manukuu na uangaze sambamba na uchunguzi wa kisarufi.

 

Acknowledgement and citation

English: To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:

Dunlap, Alexandrine. 2019. A Documentation of Gweno: subsistence and traditions among the hills of Kilimanjaro. Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0b64411b-891e-4804-a01a-b88b870a53a0. Accessed on [insert date here].

Kukiri na kunukuu

Kiswahili: Ili kurejelea data yoyote kutoka kwa mkusanyiko, tafadhali taja kama ifuatavyo:

Dunlap, Alexandrine. 2019. Hati ya Gweno: maisha na mila kati ya vilima vya Kilimanjaro. Kumbukumbu ya Lugha Zilizo Hatarini. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0b64411b-891e-4804-a01a-b88b870a53a0. Ilifikiwa mnamo [weka tarehe hapa].