JBG005

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JBG005

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0011-C2E9-C

Description: JKL (linguist) asked JBG (Golpa speaker) a second time to re-tell the "Two Frogs" story in Golpa (by narrating what he sees on the individual pages of the children's book). JBG and JKL had already made a recording of this story in JBG004 where the narration was rather free. Since there also already was a JGG recording of this re-telling (cf. text JGG001), JKL wanted to be able to compare JBG's text with JGG's text. As JGG had stuck close to the story told in the book JKL now asked JBG again to narrate the story again, sticking closer to the book-version.

Date created: 2011-07-22

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Region: Galawarra, Elcho Island, NT

Project

ID: SG0057

Name: 0139-SG0057

Description: The aim of the project is to produce an annotated and illustrated Golpa story book about the Golpa people, their land and culture. Golpa is a severely endangered YolNGu language (Yirritja moiety) spoken on Elcho Island, Northern Territory, Australia. Most stories in the book are part of a hugh collection of audio recordings made back in the 1960s. The narrator of these texts is the father of today's Golpa speakers/consultants. Until this project these texts have never been processed. There are only very few Golpa left who still speak and/or understand the language to a considerable extend. The processing of these recordings will reveal and document linguistic and cultural knowledge about a dying Australian indigenous group and make it accessible to the community as well as to researchers.This project is the first attempt to document and describe the Golpa language (and culture).

Content

Genre: re-telling

Languages

Language

Name: Golpa

Description: Golpa is a YolNGu language and thus belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family. Within the YolNGu language bloc it is counted among the NhaNGu varieties.Golpa is a critically endangered language spoken by only a handful of speakers on Elcho Island, NT.