{"id":"CARROLL2024-002","label":"Ndre mayañg","people_or_site":"Ndre (Dre)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Ndre (Dre) language area, northern Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"mayañg (pronounced muyaŋ)","source_term":"bullroarer: mayañg","source_language":"Ndre","object_description":"A bullroarer, called mayañg (pronounced muyaŋ); 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 ndre-52-1 'mayañg'; language Ndre; village None; source code em.","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Ndre (Dre) language-area anchor from the Yamfinder CLDF languages table (Glottolog dree1234); the field entry names no village; a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Ndre the bullroarer is mayañg, spoken muyaŋ. Ndre, or Dre, is a small Nambu language of the northern Morehead district in south-western Papua New Guinea, among the Yam languages whose speakers live by their yam gardens. Its neighbours share the name: màyang at Keru, meyang among the Nen, moiank among the Keraki, whose roarer first sounded for the wife of the sky-being Kambel until he snatched it from her.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"mayañg (phonetic muyaŋ): bullroarer (Yamfinder, Ndre, Emil Mittag 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"}],"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)","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)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called mayañg (pronounced muyaŋ); its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ndre","display_name":"Ndre mayañg","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-058_bm-oc1951-07-4-maipua.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-058_bm-oc1951-07-4-maipua_thumb.jpg","alt":"A second Maipua blade, collected by J. H. Holmes in the 1890s: paired circular motifs inside pointed outlines, bordered by pale triangles and bands, with a short wooden tab at one end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (Oc1951,07.4)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1951-07-4","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A second Maipua blade, collected by J. H. Holmes in the 1890s","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-058_bm-oc1951-07-4-maipua","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-002-ndre-dre"}