ISLE Metadata Initiative
Session
NameSAY_BC_NARR_01

TitleZaar Tale of Rabbit with Crown Bird

Date2007-04-26

Description
Tale-telling. Session organised in the author's house.
ContinentAfrica

CountryNigeria

Region

AddressAhmadu Bello University campus, Zaria, Kaduna State

ProjectCorpAfroAs
NameCorpAfroAs

TitleA Corpus for Afroasiatic Languages Prosodic and Morphosyntactic Analysis

IdANR-06CORP

ContactMETTOUCHI, Amina
NameMETTOUCHI, Amina

Address

Emailcorpafroas@univ-nantes.fr

OrganisationUniversité de Nantes

Description
CORPAFROAS is a project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), for 2006-2010.
It is a unique endeavor, in that it will provide the first corpus of Afroasiatic languages that will present sound-indexed data, with elaborate annotations.
It is also unique in that it will be freely accessible, and will be accompanied by software, tools, and publications that will make it easier for field linguists to contribute to CORPAFROAS, or compile their own corpus, without having to go through the complex preparatory theoretical and technical procedures that we are working on.
GenreDiscourse

SubGenreNarrative

TaskUnspecified

Modalitiesspeech

Subjecttales

Interactivitynon-interactive

PlanningTypeplanned

Involvementnon-elicited

SocialContextPrivate

EventStructureMonologue

ChannelFace to Face

Languages
Description
Conversation in good modern Zaar, wil some Hausa and English codeswitching.
IdISO639-3:say

NameZaar

Dominanttrue

SourceLanguageUnspecified

TargetLanguageUnspecified

Description
Chadic languages (South-Bauchi West) spoken by 125 000 speakers in the South of the Bauchi State in Nigeria. Speakers are bilingual Zaar-Hausa, and educated in English.
Description
Story-telling session with drinks.
Actors
Description
Recording session done by the author in his house. 

Were present : the author, holding the microphone, and an audience of 3 Zaar speakers, all employed by the author (Marvellous, Justin and Sunday). 

Adamu SUNDAY, the story teller, comes from Tafawa Balewa, and has a reputation among Zaar people as being an expert. He was indentified and invited by Marvellous. 

The speakers of the audience have not been identified in the transcription and transcribed as SP2 and SP3.
ActorAdamu
RoleSpeaker/Signer

NameAdamu

FullNameAdamu SUNDAY

CodeSP1

FamilySocialRoleUnspecified

Languages
IdISO639-3:say

NameZaar

MotherTonguetrue

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Expert.
IdISO639-3:hau

NameHausa

MotherTonguefalse

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Regional language. Bilingual
EthnicGroupZaar

Age27

BirthDateUnspecified

SexMale

EducationUnspecified

Anonymizedfalse

ContactBernard Caron
NameBernard Caron

Address7, rue Guy Moquet, 94800 VILLEJUIF, France

Emailcaron.bernard@yahoo.fr

OrganisationCNRS-LLACAN

Description
Blacksmith in Tafawa Balewa
ActorMarvellous
RoleTranslator

NameMarvellous

FullNameMarvellous S. DAVAN

CodeMSD

FamilySocialRoleUnspecified

Languages
Description
1st language : Zaar
Regional language : Hausa
Education & working language : English
IdISO639-3:say

NameZaar

MotherTonguetrue

PrimaryLanguagetrue

Description
Zaar : mother tongue
IdISO639-3:hau

NameHausa

MotherTonguefalse

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Regional language. Chadic language
LanguageEnglish
IdISO639-3:eng

NameEnglish

MotherTonguefalse

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Education language (secondary school).
EthnicGroupZaar

Age28

BirthDateUnspecified

SexUnspecified

EducationUnspecified

AnonymizedUnspecified

ContactBernard CARON
NameBernard CARON

Address7, rue Guy Moquet, 94800 VILLEJUIF, France

Emailcaron.bernard@yahoo.fr

OrganisationCNRS - LLACAN

Description
Language assistant and contact person in the village. Son to the village head.
ActorCaron
RoleAuthor

NameCaron

FullNameBernard CARON

Code

FamilySocialRoleUnspecified

Languages
LanguageFrench
IdISO639-3:fra

NameFrench

MotherTonguetrue

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
1st language. Not used in the session.
LanguageEnglish
IdISO639-3:eng

NameEnglish

MotherTonguefalse

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Fluent. Communication language with English-speaking collaborators.
IdISO639-3:hau

NameHausa

MotherTonguefalse

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Near-fluent. Communication language with villagers.
IdISO639-3:say

NameZaar

MotherTongueUnspecified

PrimaryLanguageUnspecified

Description
Basic. For basic communication with older speakers of Zaar.
EthnicGroupFrench

Age52;8.11

BirthDate1954-08-15

SexMale

EducationProfessor

AnonymizedUnspecified

ContactBernard Caron
NameBernard Caron

Address7, rue Guy-Môquet - 94800 VILLEJUIF

Emailcaron.bernard@yahoo.fr

OrganisationCNRS-LLACAN

Description
Collector and annotator with the help of M.S. Davan, language assistant.
Typeaudio

Formataudio/x-wav

Size73,455 Ko

Quality5

RecordingConditionsEdirol 09 Digital recorder ; Sennheiser ME66 microphone

TimePosition
Start00:00:00

End00:12:45

Availability

DateUnspecified

Owner

Publisher

Name

Address

Email

Organisation

Description
Annotated in Elan
Date2007-04-26

TypeAnnotation

SubTypeMorphosyntax

Formattext/x-eaf+xml

Size

TypeUnspecified

MethodologyUnspecified

LevelUnspecified

DerivationUnspecified

CharacterEncodingUnicode

ContentEncodingLeipzig Glossing Rules

LanguageIden

Anonymizedfalse

Availability

DateUnspecified

Owner

Publisher

Name

Address

Email

Organisation

Description
Sound-aligned broad phonetic transcription, free translation, and morpho-syntactic labelling in Elan format, using Leipzig glossing rules.
Availability

DateUnspecified

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Name

Address

Email

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