2012-07-06-chauka

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2012-07-06-chauka

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Title: Picture of a chauka bird

Description: This is a blurry picture of a Manus Friarbird (a.k.a. white-naped friarbird) flying past a tree. These are called chauka in Koro, and are a symbol of Manus. There are several stories about chauka. The bird is loud and its distinctive call can often be heard in Papitalai village. People say it calls on the hour.

Date created: 2012-07-06

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Papua New Guinea

Region: Los Negros Island

Address: Papitalai

Project

ID: IGS0124

Name: 0190-IGS0124

Description: Papitalai [ISO639-3:pat] is an Oceanic (Austronesian) language spoken by several hundred people on Manus Island, approximately 200 miles off the north coast of the Papua New Guinea mainland (latitude: -2.050000, longitude: 147.400000). Although under significant pressure from the encroachment of Tok Pisin and English, the community has a strong linguistic identity and is enthusiastic about maintaining their language. This project will work with speakers to create an annotated audio and video corpus of a variety of Papitalai discourse genres. Practical outcomes will include a published collection of texts, pedagogical materials, and a reference grammar to be submitted as a PhD dissertation.

Topics

Topic: Birds

Keywords

Keyword: Chauka

Keyword: Pisin

Keyword: Manus friarbirds

Content

Genre: Photograph

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Actor

Full Name: Jessica Cleary-Kemp

Role: Researcher

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Filename: 2012-07-06-chauka-01.JPG

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/

File type: Image

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