PACIFIC LINGUISTICS School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Books in pdf format This .pdf (portable document file) document may be copied, printed and stored for use in libraries and for personal use. It may not be reproduced for sale or distribution. This book is not available in hard copy. Pacific Linguistics Home Page: http://www.pacling.com Mali (Baining) texts Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius Tayul PL 606 Available as a PDF file only on disc 2009 ISBN 9780858836037 295 pp. Price: Australia (includes GST) $29.15 International $26.50 This collection of twenty Mali texts was recorded in 2001 and 2002 and were transcribed and translated by Tonya Stebbins and Julius Tayul. The texts are a representative sample of the materials used as a corpus in the development of the Mali (Baining) Grammar (Stebbins forthcoming) and Mali (Baining) Dictionary (Stebbins forthcoming). Mali is a member of the Baining language family, a non-Austronesian language family located in the southwest quadrant of the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. There are around 2,200 speakers of Mali living in eleven villages across Mali territory or in nearby villages and towns. There are two dialects of Mali: a coastal dialect whose speakers are called Abilta ‘those from the old village’ and a mountain dialect whose speakers are called Arongda ‘those from a cold place’. Language shift to Tok Pisin is well established in the Mali community but children with two Mali parents still acquire Mali as their first language. Only the oldest generation of Mali speakers (50 or more years of age) is fully fluent in Mali; able to use it in all domains without ad hoc borrowings from Tok Pisin. Both dialects, both genders and speakers aged from 30 to 65 years of age are represented in this collection. Mali (Baining) texts Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius Tayul Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Copyright in this edition is vested with Pacific Linguistics First published 2009 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Author: Stebbins, Tonya. Title: Mali (baining) texts [electronic resource] / Tonya N. Stebbins. ISBN: 9780858836037 (pdf) Other Authors/ Australian National University. Contributors: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pacific Linguistics. 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Table of contents Preface .................................................................................................................................. ix Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................. xi List of abbreviations ............................................................................................................ xii Notes on orthography, segmentation, glossing and translation conventions...................... xiv Texts 1. Asecha sēvēt kama mundēmbes ama mor ngas, atēpki ma nge mēn mir gēl autha morta. Story about the huge fire, the inferno that came long ago to our ancestors. Gabriel Vlok................................................................................................................. 1 2. Asecha sēvēt kama Tangammētta ia that mēn mēnia dak minia diva thi nēchama Bainginggēna tha gamarnana. Story about the Tolais, how they came and why they and the Bainings fought with each other. Gabriel Vlok............................................................................................................... 18 3. Asecha sēvēt ma ut ma Baininggēna autha morta ama asik mir ti sek alugut minia viavik. Story about us, the Baining people, our ancestors, how they got married long ago. Julius Tayul................................................................................................................ 32 4. Asecha sēvēt kama achumēska ma sik klan ia kē vēt tēchama lēvopki dak koi chochēna ta ndrem sēvētha cha sēchi. Story about the man who kidnaps a woman but her uncles don’t know about him and her. Julius Tayul................................................................................................................ 41 5. Asecha sēvēt kama thuaresiom: achumeska dēchama lēvopki ama vandi ini sekna. Story about the two young people: the man and woman who wanted to marry. Simon Inos ................................................................................................................. 60 6. Asecha sēvēt kama chirap ama mir ti tēp mangēt. Story about the salt ash that they made long ago. Cornelius Nuang ........................................................................................................ 88 7. Asecha sēvēt kama viam. Story about galip nuts. Julius Tayul................................................................................................................ 97 8. Asecha sēvēt kama auravu. Story about native spinach. Fidelma Lemka ........................................................................................................ 104 vii viii Table of contents 9. Asecha sēvēt kama rucha ma cha mēn vēt kama anēvēm nacha chēna. Story about the man who met the underground people. Henry Methamon ......................................................................................................113 10. Sagēlēmna nēchama tēpki. Half-way to hell. Gabriel Vlok .............................................................................................................134 11. Asecha sēvēt kama lulen’gi ma chia nēp nanas. Story about the boat which capsized. Julius Tayul...............................................................................................................144 12. Asecha sēvēt kama vaimga chēnēchama chaelka. Story about the dog and the wallaby. Bernard Kusekngo ....................................................................................................161 13. Asecha sēvēt kama duraika da chama chaelka. Story about the rooster and the wallaby. Julius Tayul..............................................................................................................167 14. Asecha sēvēt kama isēm ngē mo angētha morka. Story about the leader of all the birds. Bernard Merngo........................................................................................................175 15. Asecha sēvēt kama karuvaika dēchama mēliarka. Story about the earlybird and the small parrot. Julius Tayul...............................................................................................................198 16. Asecha sēvēt kama arucha chēnēchama vaimga