Chants

This is an account of what people thought about this and that year in the Chinese horoscope (生肖), such as 'the year of the Dog', 'the year of the Tiger, etc: how the Terrestrial Branches were perceived by the Na, which properties were attributed to them. People born in the year of the Tiger are strong, people born in the year of the Rabbit are fast, etc.

Narrative in Limbu, describes an accidental death and the ritual performed by a "yeba" shaman to appease and control the victim's ghost ("sogha").

Die Sprecherin berichtet, daß die Mädchen, bevor sie heiraten konnten, erst Federbetten und –kissen besitzen mußten. Deshalb gab es auf den Höfen immer viele Gänse, deren Federn auch entkielt werden mußten. Im Winter kamen viele Frauen ins Haus um mitzuhelfen, aber auch um Nachrichten auszutauschen. Die (jungen) Burschen aber erlaubten sich auch mal einen Spaß. Am Abend nach der Arbeit gab es immer einen Umtrunk, zum Abschluß auch etwas Besseres.

Commented reading of the manuscript "The Origin of the Monkeys" from the Maspero Collection. 2 pages. Comments in Vietnamese

王林君唱想念妈妈的尔苏歌曲。

Lexical elicitaion for Nyesam's dictionary data. The recording follows the SIL African wordlist.

Chants

Explications

Danses de Noël

Equipment: Workstation EVA2 , notebook computer

Equipment: Workstation EVA2 , notebook computer

Cuối Chăm vocabulary, elicited through the Vietnamese

Mường vocabulary, from word item 1 to word item 599, EFEO-CNRS-SOAS lexicon [from n° 1 to 100a following Ferlus's numbering]

Wéjaap visite son ami au bord de la mer, et la nuit venue il est gêné pour dormir à cause du bruit des vagues. Son ami fait alors semblant d’y remédier (il attend la marée basse).Quand Pwölöunu monte visiter Wéjaap, il se plaint du bruit de l’eau et Wéjaap se croit obliger d’arranger ça. Il veut faire barrage avec son corps, mais est emporté et noyé par la cascade.

Ruc vocabulary, part 2 of 3; from word item 1219 to word item 2370, EFEO-CNRS-SOAS lexicon [from n° 200 to 397.27a following Ferlus's numbering]

Conte

Tai Yo vocabulary, word items from EFEO-CNRS-SOAS wordlist. The recording was done by Nguyễn Ngọc Bình. First Part. The survey was mainly conducted in Vietnamese.

王家三姐妹唱歌。

有王连清朗读尔苏语警句和对偶句。还有普通句子