oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927853
| |
OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927853 |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | The Plight of Bolozai Village | |
| The_Plight_of_Bolozai_Village | ||
| Documentation of the Southern Tujia Language of China | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | Xiang Qingfan | |
| Contributor (researcher): | Shixuan Xu | |
| Coverage: | China | |
| Date: | 2005-05 | |
| Description: | Bolozai Village is located on a high mountain. It severely lacks water all the year around. The villagers need to go down the mountain to carry water when it does not rain for weeks, so the villagers are in severe poverty and hardship. What’s worse, the livestocks are weak and crops can not grow well. Besides, there is no road access to Polozhai, so the villagers need to walk more than ten kilometres to the market. Thus, Bolozai lags far behind villages in the local area. Therefore, the villagers are striving to improve their life conditions, so the hope to develop the econony and build a better home by planting oranges at the foot of hill as it is in good geographic location and near to the road. | |
| Summary of deposit Southern Tujia (土家. ISO-639: tjs) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a small number of villages in the mountainous Wuling Range of the western Hunan and Hubei provinces of central south China.There are around 6 million Tujia people, however only a small number of these speak the Southern Tujia variant. The Northern variant (ISO-639: tji) is more widely spoken. This collection will contain data on language structure, phonological, lexical, and grammatical features. There will also be audio recordings of natural speech and folk literature. The aim is for this collection to contain the maximum amount of information about the language and about traditional culture expressed through the language, and to document other aspects of the language for which inadequate information exists. As part of the collection there will also be a reference grammar, a Tujia-Chinese-English dictionary, and corpora of traditional oral literature, which will be useful for both linguists and the speaker community, will be produced. Chinese will be used as the explanatory language in the grammars, and as the translation language for texts. Group represented Tujia (Bizika) people, China. Language information Southern Tujia (土家) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the mountainous areas of central south China, and has no literary tradition or adequate documentation. It currently is in the final phase of an apparently inexorable decline: the number of native speakers is less than 1000, and almost every remaining speaker is bilingual in Tujia and Chinese. | ||
| ELDP grantee who deposited the project material | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| application/pdf | ||
| text/x-trs | ||
| Identifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927853 | |
| MDP0095 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI927853%23 | |
| Publisher: | Shixuan Xu | |
| Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | ||
| Subject: | Narrative | |
| Southern Tujia language | ||
| Tujia, Southern | ||
| Undetermined language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | tjs | |
| und | ||
| Type: | Audio | |
OLAC Info |
||
| Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
OAI Info |
||
| OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI927853 | |
| DateStamp: | 2020-08-03 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Shixuan Xu (researcher); Xiang Qingfan (consultant). 2005-05. Shixuan Xu. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_CN iso639_tjs iso639_und | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | China | |
| Area: | Asia | |