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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279499

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Title:Sharing of Commodities, Hardships Faced and the Dying of the Okiek Language
okiek_history014
A Preliminary Documentation of the Okiek Language of Kenya
Contributor (annotator):Shadrack
Contributor (depositor):Jane
Contributor (recorder):Patrick
Contributor (researcher):Jane
Contributor (speaker):Konana
Contributor (translator):Duncan
Coverage:Kenya
Date:2018-04-06
Description:The speaker describes how they used to share their property with those who lacked such to maintain peace. He then speaks of how the children used to stay with their grandmothers when the elders went to fight with their enemies. He then enlists the hardships that the Okiek faced. He finishes by stating how the Okiek language is dying.
Simon Konana Konini is a respected community elder who took who participated in many documentation sessions. He is the narrator of the story in the second session (okiek_Narratives002).
Jane Oduor is the Okiek language documentor.
Duncan is waiting to go to college. He completed secondary school education.
Patrick works within the Okiek community as a social worker and community mobilizer. In this project he also assisted in community mobilization, video recording, translating and annotating.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/mp4
text/x-pfsx+xml
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279499
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1279499%23
Publisher:Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
University of Nairobi
Subject:Discourse
Okiek language
Subject (ISO639):oki
Type:Audio
Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279499
DateStamp:  2019-04-01
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Search Info

Citation: Konana (speaker); Jane (depositor); Jane (researcher); Duncan (translator); Patrick (recorder); Shadrack (annotator). 2018-04-06. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor.
Terms: area_Africa country_KE iso639_oki

Inferred Metadata

Country: Kenya
Area: Africa


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