that munanga linguist

So many weeks, so many communities, so many interviews but no updates on this blog since I got all excited about the start of my Kriol Proujek ! Oops! In case you're new here, I'm working on a research project trying to figure out dialects of Kriol. The plan is to visit all the communities east of Katherine where Kriol is spoken, interview people (asking the same questions each time) and work out what differs linguistically (and what doesn't) between communities. It's old fashioned dialectology  basically - not very different from what people in England or America did when they went from state to state or village to village to lookout for different dialects. Except it's with Kriol. Well, two and a half months in and the project is going really well. I've visited seven communities: Bulman, Beswick, Barunga, Jilkminggan, Minyerri, Urapunga and Borroloola and done twenty interviews involving 42 people. That means I now have about 40 hours of Kriol recordings to