{"id":"CARROLL2024-001","label":"Namo mbulu and moyaŋg","people_or_site":"Namo (Tais variety)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Namo language area, south of the Morehead River toward Tais, Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"mbulu; moyaŋg","source_term":"bullroarer: mbulu; bullroarer: moyaŋg","source_language":"Namo Tais","object_description":"A bullroarer, called mbulu; moyaŋg; its form is not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"carroll2024_yamfinder","source_type":"academic_language_description","source_url":"https://yamfinder.com/","page_or_plate":"Yamfinder concept 52 'bullroarer'; CLDF namotais-52-1 'mbulu'; namotais-52-2 'moyaŋg'; language Namo_Tais; village Bimadbn; source code ne.","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Namo language-area anchor from the Yamfinder CLDF languages table (Glottolog namo1246); the field entry labels the village Bimadbn, which is Nen country, so neither village is used; a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Namo speakers have two words for the bullroarer, mbulu and moyaŋg. Namo is one of the Nambu languages of the Morehead district in the far south-west of Papua New Guinea, part of the family called the Yam languages after the crop that feeds its people and fills its exchange feasts. Moyaŋg belongs to a name heard right across Nambu country: moiank among the Keraki, meyang among the Nen, màyang at Keru.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"mbulu; moyaŋg: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Namo_Tais, Nicholas Evans field data)","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'","url":"https://yamfinder.com/"},{"citation":"CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024)","url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10843349"},{"citation":"Christian Döhler, A Grammar of Komnzo (Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018), pp. 35-36","url":"https://langsci.github.io/212/main.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'; CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024); Christian Döhler, A Grammar of Komnzo (Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018), pp. 35-36","source_display":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'; CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024); Christian Döhler, A Grammar of Komnzo (Berlin: Language Science Press…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called mbulu; moyaŋg; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"namo","display_name":"Namo mbulu and moyaŋg","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG52_schmeltz1894_fig2_leiden.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG52_schmeltz1894_fig2_leiden_thumb.jpg","alt":"Schellong’s Finschhafen blade in Leiden (568/97), shown in a cropped drawing with paired eye-like circles at its neck and rows of diamond and triangular decoration.","credit":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, Verh. Ver. naturwiss. Unterhaltung Hamburg 9 (1894/96), plate fig. 2","license":"Public domain (published 1894/96)","source_page":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Schellong's Finschhafen blade in Leiden (568/97): unpierced","pool_id":"auto-PNG52_schmeltz1894_fig2_leiden","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-001-namo-tais-variety"}