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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/6e9add04-ff25-4cb2-904f-7948ef624d85

Title: Photos of Wisamol village

Description: These are photos of Wisamol village and the surrounding area. The researcher stayed in Wisamol for two weeks during the 2017 and 2018 trips (but not during the 2019 trip). These photos were taken in 2017 and 2018.

Date created: Unspecified

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Papua New Guinea

Region: Sandaun Province

Address: Wisamol village, East Aitape LLG, Aitape-Lumi District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea

Project

ID: IGS0362

Name: 0613-IGS0362

Description: This is a collection of video recordings of narratives, conversations, and songs in the Aro language [tei], a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. These recordings were made during a trip to Papua New Guinea made in September-November 2019. All of the recordings were made in Brau, Selep, and Mup villages, which are part of Kolembi ward, Palai LLG, Nuku District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.This collection consists of the following: (1) around 7 hours of video recordings of narratives, conversations, and songs; (2) around 4 hours of annotations in ELAN; (3) a description of the orthography developed by the researcher and used throughout this project; (4) a FLEx database with a lexicon and around 4 hours of morphological glossings; (5) around 6 hours of audio recordings of elicitation sessions; (6) around 200 photographs taken during three trips to the Aro speaking area made in 2017, 2018, and 2019.In addition to materials in the Aro language, this collection also contains one video recording of a narrative in the Mukweym language and one video recording of a narrative in the Orok language, told by a speaker who is equally fluent in Aro, Mukweym, and Orok. Mukweym and Orok are both closely related to Aro and spoken in areas that are geographically adjacent to the Aro speaking area. The level of similarity and mutual intelligibility between Aro, Mukweym, and Orok seems to be roughly comparable to that between Spanish and Portuguese.There are also several songs in the Tumleo language (an Austronesian language spoken in an area near Aitape, about 30 km to the northwest of the Aro speaking area). These songs are performed by a native speaker of Aro who is not a speaker of the Tumleo language, but knows these songs due to their importance in traditional Aro culture. Interestingly, a number of songs in the Tumleo language have been an important part of traditional Aro singing for many generations and are still preserved by some older members of the Aro community, even though nobody in the Aro community at this point can speak the Tumleo language.