{"id":"CARROLL2024-006","label":"Keru màyang","people_or_site":"Neme speakers, Keru","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Keru village, northern Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"màyang","source_term":"bullroarer: màyang","source_language":"Neme","object_description":"A bullroarer, called màyang; 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 neme-52-1 'màyang'; language Neme; village Keru; source code em.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Keru village point (OpenStreetMap, Morehead District); Georges et al. 2005 distinguish Keru East and West, and the field entry says only Keru; village-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Neme speakers at Keru, in the north of the Morehead district of south-western Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer màyang. It is one of a family of names spread across the Nambu languages of the Yam family: mayañg in Ndre, moyaŋg in Namo, meyang among the Nen of Bimadbn, whose clans each named roarers of their own, and moiank among the Keraki.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"màyang: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Neme, Keru, 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 màyang; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"neme","display_name":"Keru màyang","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_37746.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_37746_thumb.jpg","alt":"Painted Koriki koe bullroarer from the Purari Delta, A. C. Haddon's collection: a broad oval board with a large round face and an elongated figure, bordered by pale chevrons and concentric eye forms.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1916.31.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-37746","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Koriki koe bull-roarer: a painted Purari Delta board","pool_id":"auto-prm--prm_37746","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-006-neme-speakers-keru"}