Description
These wordlist recordings were made under Warapaâs house with three NĂ©mĂ© speaking men, Maya (the oldest, c. 55?), Sami and YĂ€ni, from the village of Keru (kÉru) who had walked to Bimadbn in order to read the copy of Williamsâ "Papuans of the Trans-Fly" kept in the village. Recordings contain the basic Trans-Fly word-list with some excursions into paradigms (pronouns, intransitive âbeâ and âcomeâ etc).
Sound files up to 008 are from the morning session; those after are from the afternoon session.
Others present for the recording: MB, Jimmy Nebni, Yokar (appeared later; can be heard prompting in Nambu), and various others drifting in and out through the session.
Corresponding notebook pages are: N12FN120-134 for notes from morning session, N12FN136-143 for afternoon session.
