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Latitude

-8.7755

Longitude

142.2045

Start Date

2014-10-22

End Date

2014-10-22

Coconut site: Wagra Karwai (Carua), an Äkämär man who lives in Gubam as part of a Karata trip arrangement, in his yard. Bebek (Yosang's baba) joins in to explain in a mixture of Nen and Nambu (though others try shutting him up), then Gima, then Bebek again. Interesting life story, including reading from Motu Bible and talking about learning Motu as a young man working on rubber plantations elsewhere which is where he learned Motu. At the end his wife is asked how she feels about having stayed in her own village and talks in Nambu. Wagra comes from the Qandara clan, which his son belongs to (in swamp area near Mär). GPS location of coconut tree: 8 61337 S, 141 92078 E. This is recorded during the second visit to Gubam. Recordings for this trip (CR79, CR80, CR81, CR82, II7) include a number of other interviews with Nen speakers in Gubam, either people from Bimadbn who married into the village (2 women, 1 man) or people raied in Gubam who had learned Nen by other means (from mother/wife).

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