Wehea: Lexical & grammatical documentation of a language of Borneo
Hudoq dance during the Lom Play season. Photo by DeAndré A. Espree-Conaway, 2024. Click on image to access collection.
| Language | Wehea |
| Depositor | DeAndré A. Espree-Conaway |
| Affiliation | University of Oregon & Bloomfield Language Institute |
| Location | Indonesia |
| Collection ID | 0776 |
| Grant ID | GLB0012 |
| Funding Body | Glottobank |
| Collection Status | Forthcoming |
| Landing Page Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2196/16f80c7f-6934-4a69-9ef9-91dd12ba2cdb |
Summary of the collection
English: This corpus contains audio, video, photographic, and textual materials in the documentation of the lexical and grammatical features of the Wehea language.
Bahasa Indonesia: Korpus ini [badan data] berisi materi audio, video, fotografi, dan tekstual dalam dokumentasi fitur leksikal dan tata bahasa dari bahasa Wehea.
Group represented
English: In this language documentation collection, materials representing lexical and grammatical structures of the Wehea language [ISO 639-3: mxd; Glottocode: moda1244] are stored. The data on the recordings in the present collection were elicited in Indonesian and translated into the language with the help of fluent speaker Martinus Joko.
Bahasa Indonesia: Dalam koleksi dokumentasi bahasa ini, materi yang mewakili struktur leksikal dan tata bahasa dari bahasa Wehea [ISO 639-3: MXD; Glottocode: Moda1244] disimpan. Data tentang rekaman dalam koleksi ini ditimbulkan dalam bahasa Indonesia dan diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia dengan bantuan pembicara Martinus Joko.
Language information
English: Wehea is considered a language within the Modang subgroup of the Kayanic subfamily of Austronesian languages. Wehea is spoken in six villages located along the Wehea (Wahau, in Indonesian) river [long Wehea] and the telen river [long Tlen]. There are slight dialectal differences between villages on the two rivers; however, the two variants remain highly mutually intelligible. Along with language attitudes, stressing the distinctiveness of the language, Wehea is also unlikely to be intelligible with any other Modang language (Espree-Conaway 2022).
Bahasa Indonesia: Wehea dianggap sebagai bahasa dalam subkelompok Modang dari subfamili Kayanik dari rumpun bahasa Austronesia. Wehea digunakan di enam desa yang terletak di sepanjang sungai Wehea (Wahau, di Indonesia) [long Wehea] dan Sungai Telen [long Tlen]. Ada sedikit perbedaan dialek di antara desa-desa di kedua sungai; kedua varian tetap sangat dapat dipahami. Wehea juga tidak mungkin dapat dipahami dengan bahasa Modang lainnya (Espree-Conaway 2022).
References
Espree-Conaway, DeAndré Anthony. 2022. Evolutionary cartographies of language diversification: Quantitative approaches to the geolinguistic mapping of the Kayanic languages (Central Borneo). Grand Forks: University of North Dakota MA thesis.
Guerreiro, Antonio J. 2002. A note on ‘spirit helpers’ in the Lung Lejie epic of the Wehea Modang (East Kalimantan). In K. Alexander Adelaar & Robert Blust (eds). Between worlds: Linguistic papers in memory of David John Prentice, 95-110. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Acknowledgement and citation
English: A special thanks to the Wehea community for sharing their language and culture with me.
Bahasa Indonesia: Terima kasih khusus kepada komunitas Wehea karena membagikan bahasa dan budaya mereka dengan saya.
To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:
Espree-Conaway, DeAndré A. 2024. Wehea: Lexical & grammatical documentation of a language of Borneo. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/bdfd9742-ca8b-4be7-8226-23a3b4b933f8. Accessed on [insert date here].
