First visit of Tombakopa Y15_Canon_0103 Audio-visual documentation of Meakambut ways of speaking

A conversation while cooking a meal The Meakambut are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, numbering about 60, moving between camps and rock shelters in their mountainous territory in East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. As one of very few semi-nomadic groups in Melanesia, they are key for understanding the (socio)linguistic situation which would have prevailed before agriculture. Apart from basic word-lists there has been no prior research on the language. Using observational filming to supplement basic linguistic and ethnographic documentation, this project provides audio-visual documentation and analysis of a variety of Meakambut speech practices, embedded in rich ethnographic data. In this video John, Mak, Parayp and Yakalok are cooking a meal after arriving at Tombakopa age estimated John is fluent in TP, as he spent extended periods in other places age estimated can sing in Anday, Enga, fluent in TP age estimated Parayp has a basic knowledge of Tok Pisin. age estimated fluent in TP, spent extended periods of time in other places. can understand a bit of Anday, a litttle less of Enga Learned a bit of Awiakay when assisting my research in Kanjimei quick learner, good language assistant, VERY communicative Darja's mother tongue is Slovene, her working languages are Tok Pisin and English. She is fluent in Tok Pisin and Awiakay, but has only basic knowledge of Meakambut. She's the researcher and filmmaker.