{"id":4943,"date":"2011-03-13T21:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2011-03-13T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:27:00","slug":"trung-yiddish-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/03\/trung-yiddish-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trung-Yiddish translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-public-wavelength\/\">previous post<\/a>, recently anthropologists have pointed to the need to highlight issues of concern, especially in the public media. I suggested that linguists are ahead of the game here, and doing fairly well at &#8220;express[ing] their views in public forums, including the popular press&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The media sharing site YouTube is now being used by various language groups, and by researchers, to present materials in, and highlight issues about, endangered languages. Possibly one of the most unusual contributions is a video report produced by Ross (aka. Shmuel) Perlin, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrelp.org\/aboutus\/students\/index.php?pid=1676\">completed<\/a> the MA in Language Documentation and Description at SOAS in 2006 and is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himalayanlanguages.org\/team\/ross_perlin\">PhD student<\/a> at Leiden University. Ross is doing fieldwork in Yunan province in south-west China on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himalayanlanguages.org\/languages\/trung\">Trung language<\/a>, a Tibeto-Burman tongue spoken by a few thousand farmers and related to Rawang and Nu. Ross\/Shmuel Perlin&#8217;s video describes and illustrates his research and is in Yiddish with English subtitles. One of the most charming sections is his Yiddish (and English) translation of a Trung ghost story.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/huI9mMzVHcg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, recently anthropologists have pointed to the need to highlight issues of concern, especially in the public media. I suggested that linguists are ahead of the game here, and doing fairly well at &#8220;express[ing] their views in public forums, including the popular press&#8221;. The media sharing site YouTube is &#8230; <a title=\"Trung-Yiddish translation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/03\/trung-yiddish-translation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trung-Yiddish translation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,33,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-endangered-languages","category-experience","category-fieldwork"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}