{"id":"CARROLL2024-008","label":"Mibini saɸaŋgə","people_or_site":"Namat speakers, Mibini","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Mibini village, south of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"saɸaŋgə","source_term":"bullroarer: saɸaŋgə","source_language":"Namat","object_description":"A bullroarer, called saɸaŋgə; 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 namat-52-1 'saɸaŋgə'; language Namat; village Mibini; source code js.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Mibini village, 08°50.42'S 141°38.14'E after Georges et al. 2005 p. 6 (matches OpenStreetMap Mibini); village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Namat speakers at Mibini, south of Morehead station in the Trans-Fly of Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer saɸaŋgə, a name shared with none of the Yam languages around them. The same people name the bamboo flute latu and the drum ndundu. A few miles north, at Daraia, speakers of the closely related Nama call the roarer áki kwèfan, and the Komnzo of Rouku call it ŋofoŋofo.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"saɸaŋgə: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Namat, Mibini, Jeff Siegel field data; phonemic transcription)","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 saɸaŋgə; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"namat","display_name":"Mibini saɸaŋgə","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FRIEDERICI1913-001_tabar-friederici1913-p68-table-row137.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/FRIEDERICI1913-001_tabar-friederici1913-p68-table-row137_thumb.jpg","credit":"G. Friederici, Untersuchungen über eine melanesische Wanderstraße (1913), p. 68 — Internet Archive","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/MittSchutzErganz_7/page/n79","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Row 137 of Friederici's table: Barriai tibura and Florida buro","pool_id":"auto-FRIEDERICI1913-001_tabar-friederici1913-p68-table-row137","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-008-namat-speakers-mibini"}