Abui stories : seven children
SEVEN CHILDREN is one of the many folklores of the Abui people from the Alorese islands in the Indonesian Archipelago. Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. As the Abui community is s...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59508 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | SEVEN CHILDREN is one of the many folklores of the Abui people from the Alorese
islands in the Indonesian Archipelago. Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the
traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. As the Abui
community is standing at a mere population of approximately 20,000 in the current days, the
urgency of documenting the Abui culture and language, of which the Abui folklore plays a
crucial role, becomes all the more apparent. Hence, the professor of linguistics, Prof.
František Kratochvíl, based in Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, has taken the initiative in teaching himself the Abui language, documenting
the results in a compilation entitled ‘A Grammar of Abui’. Among the studies of Prof.
Kratochvíl, the Abui folklore forms a significant segment for which he has translated into
English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Mandarin, facilitating the accessibility of this obscure culture
with regards to the modern context – both in Indonesia and abroad. |
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