LINGUIST List 17.3600

Wed Dec 06 2006

Books: Language Description: Crowley, Lynch (Ed)

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Directory         1.    Julie Manley, Tape: Crowley, Lynch (Ed)
Message 1: Tape: Crowley, Lynch (Ed)
Date: 04-Nov-2006
From: Julie Manley <jmanleycoombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Tape: Crowley, Lynch (Ed)


Title: Tape Subtitle: A declining language of Malakula ( Vanuatu ) Published: 2006 Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
                http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Book URL: http://www.pacling.com/catalogue/575.html

Author: Terry T. Crowley Editor: John Lynch Paperback: ISBN: 058835673 Pages: Price: AUS $ 50.00 Comment: In Australia AUS $55.00 (incl. GST)
Abstract:

This is one of four monographs on Malakula languages that Terry Crowley hadbeen working on at the time of his sudden death in January 2005. One of thefour, Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula ( Vanuatu ) , had beensubmitted to Pacific Linguistics a couple of weeks earlier, and theremaining three, including the current volume, were in various stages ofcompletion. John Lynch was asked by the Board of Pacific Linguistics toprepare all four for publication, both as a memorial to Terry and becauseof the valuable data they contain.

The Tape language was traditionally bordered to the west by the V'ënen Taut(or Big Nambas) language, which was spoken along the coast from just westof Anuatakh. This language occupies a large geographical area ofnorthwestern Malakula, and in terms of the number of speakers, it iscurrently the second largest language of Malakula (Lynch & Crowley2001:68). The neighbouring group to the northeast of Tape territory spokethe Tirakh language. During the colonial era, they moved down to the coastand their traditional homeland is now unoccupied.

Tape is a relocated language that is now spoken by only a handful of olderpeople some distance away from their traditional homeland, which has beenabandoned as a place of residence. The traditional territory of Tapespeakers was an area of northwestern Malakula extending inland between theLowisinwei River valley and across to the eastern bank of the Brenwei Riverto the south of a mountain called Pwitarvere.

Although Tape traditional territory include a stretch of coast fromAnuatakh to Lowisinwei-which gave people living in this area access to saltwhich they could trade with the Tirakh people-Tape speakers oriented theirlives primarily towards the bush. This is reflected in this study in thefact that speakers today were unable to offer more than an absolute minimumof terminology relating to sea life, even though they have lived in thecoastal village of Tautu for about eighty years.

Tape was originally the name for the area shown on the map where thelanguage which is the subject of this description was originally spoken.There was reportedly no distinct name for the language as such, which wasreferred to simply as vengesien Tape 'the language of Tape'. However,speakers of the language today-and other people of Tape descent who do notspeak the language-have come to use Tape as the name for the language as well.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description
Subject Language(s): Tape (qta)
Written In: English (eng )

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