# N|uu recordings and transcriptions This data collection contains recordings and transcriptions of the N|uu language. This includes N|uu recordings, South African Nama and a local variety of Afrikaans known by the speakers as "Onse Afrikaans" or "Our Afrikaans". All data collected between 2001 and 2022 were collected from mother tongue speakers of the target languages on site in Upington, Askham and Witdraai in the Northern Cape. ## Files and directories ### transcriptions.ods This spreadsheet contains the transcriptions and related information. This information is organized on several sheets: + Lexicon: This sheet contains a list of N|uu words and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). + Abbreviations: This sheet contains a list of the abbreviations used in the information in the spreadsheet. + Peoples names: This sheet contains a list of names of people and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). + Greetings: This sheet contains a list of greetings and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). + Place names: This sheet contains a list of names of places and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). + Kliptaal: This sheet contains a list of Kliptaal words and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). + Local_AfrikaansNamaSetswana: This sheet contains a list of words that were collected, which come from other languages (Local Afrikaans, Nama, or Setswana) and their corresponding information (see below for a description of the columns). The different sheets have several columns: + Orthography 1: This column contains the orthography of the N|uu words, in both eastern and western dialects where applicable. Note that the Kliptaal sheet has words from Kliptaal and Local_AfrikaansNamaSetswana sheet has words that are used in N|uu, but come from languages (Local Afrikaans, Nama, or Setswana). + English: This column contains the English translation of the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Part of Speech, English: This column contains the part of speech of the English translation. + Parentheticals, English: This column contains additional information in English about the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Recordings (target word in sentence): This column contains names of the audio files for recordings of the word in the Orthography 1 column in a sentence. These files can be found in the audio directory. + Dictionary Recording (target word only): This column contains names of the audio files for recordings made in the N|uu language for the word in the Orthography 1 column only. + Semantic code: This column contains semantic codes identifying the semantic category of the word in the Orthography 1 column. + IPA: This column contains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) representation for the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Short Notes: This column contains additional notes on the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Afrikaans community feedback HEADWORD: This column contains the standard Afrikaans translation of the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Afrikaans community feedback Local Variety: This column contains the local variety of Afrikaans (Onse Afrikaans) translation of the word in the Orthography 1 column if it is different from standard Afrikaans. + Afrik Parentheticals: This column contains additional information in Afrikaans about the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Nama Feedback: This column contains the Nama translation of the word in the Orthography 1 column, which is marked for the difference in Namibian Nama (marked with NKK) and South African Nama if there is a difference. + Nama Feedback: This column contains additional information in Nama about the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Nama recording: This column contains names of the audio files for recordings of the Nama words for the word in the Nama Feedback column. + Notes: This column contains additional notes. + Additional recordings: This column contains names of the audio files of additional recordings related to the word in the Orthography 1 column. + Possible cognates in...; These columns contain possible cognates from other related languages (as indicated by the text following "Possible cognates in". Note that this is not a complete analysis. + Abbreviation: This column contains abbreviations that are used in this data collection. + Nama term: This column contains the Nama translation of the abbreviation in the Abbreviation column. + ENG: This column contains the English translation of the abbreviation in the Abbreviation column. + Eng abbrev.: This column contains the English abbreviation of the abbreviation in the Abbreviation column. + Afr. abbrev.: This column contains the Afrikaans abbreviation of the abbreviation in the Abbreviation column. + Afrikaans: This column contains the Afrikaans translation of the abbreviation in the Abbreviation column. + GPS Coordinates: This column contains GPS coordinates of the place names mentioned in the Orthography 1 column in the Place names sheet. ### audio directory This directory contains the audio recordings. These recordings have been collected over time by several field linguists. As such, no consistent file naming scheme is used. The file names found in the transcriptions.ods file correspond to those in the audio directory, but additional audio files are present. Within the file names, different speakers are encoded using two letter abbreviations: | Abbreviation | Name | | :----------- | :----------------- | | AK | Antjie Kassie | | UR | \|Una Rooi | | KB | Kheis Brou | | KE | Katrina Esau | | AO | Andries Oleyn | | GS | Griet Seekoei | | FK | Vytjie Koper | | SS | Simon Sauls | | JK | Johana Koper | | HK | Hannie Koerant | | EV | Elsie Vaalbooi[^1] | [^1]: This data collection does not contain recordings of this speaker. The STE- files do not have a speaker label, but all are recordings by KE. If a file name does not have speaker information (apart from the STE- files), then the speaker is not explicitly marked. Note that speaker markers can occur in upper or lower case. They are typically at the end of the file name or separated by underscores from the rest of the file name. The data collection contains 20,382 audio files. These files use the following audio encodings. | Audio encoding | Number of files | | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------: | | 16-bit linear PCM, mono, 22050 Hz | 2 | | IFF data, AIFF audio | 1 | | IFF data, AIFF-C compressed audio | 3 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 16000 Hz | 45 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz | 9878 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 44100 Hz | 8850 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 48000 Hz | 27 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz | 1564 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 48000 Hz | 11 | | RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, mono 22050 Hz | 1 | ### audio_files.txt This file contains a list of files that can be found in the audio directory. ## Authors Authors are ordered alphabetically on last name. Christopher T Collins New York University 10 Washington Place #411 New York, NY 10003 USA Kerry Jones African Tongue Kommetjie, Cape Town, 7975 South Africa Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University P.O. Box 6032 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA Alena Witzlack-Makarevich Department of Linguistics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel ## License This data collection is made available under the following license: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 South Africa (CC BY-NC 3.0 ZA) [CC BY-NC 3.0 ZA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/za/)