The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-001

Namo mbulu and moyaŋg

Papua New Guinea · Namo language area, south of the Morehead River toward Tais, Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

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.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Schellong's Finschhafen blade in Leiden (568/97): unpierced Public domain · Image source

mbulu; moyaŋg

Source term: bullroarer: mbulu; bullroarer: moyaŋg

mbulu; moyaŋg: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Namo_Tais, Nicholas Evans field data)

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.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called mbulu; moyaŋg; its form is not recorded.
Function
Not recorded.

Sources

  1. Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer' View
  2. CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., "Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024) View
  3. Christian Döhler, A Grammar of Komnzo (Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018), pp. 35-36 View
  • Kiriwa sosamPapua New Guinea · Arammba (Upper Morehead) language area, Kiriwa village, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Wim wɑgrɑPapua New Guinea · Wim village, Pahoturi River country, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Tais mburerePapua New Guinea · Tais village, southern Morehead district near the coast, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Daraia áki kwèfanPapua New Guinea · Daraia village, north-east of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Mibini saɸaŋgəPapua New Guinea · Mibini village, south of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Ndre mayañgPapua New Guinea · Ndre (Dre) language area, northern Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Function not recorded

Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.