The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-008

Mibini saɸaŋgə

Papua New Guinea · Mibini village, south of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

Row 137 of Friederici's table: Barriai tibura and Florida buro
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Row 137 of Friederici's table: Barriai tibura and Florida buro Public domain · Image source

saɸaŋgə

Source term: bullroarer: saɸaŋgə

saɸaŋgə: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Namat, Mibini, Jeff Siegel field data; phonemic transcription)

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.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called saɸaŋgə; 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
  • 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
  • Namo mbulu and moyaŋgPapua New Guinea · Namo language area, south of the Morehead River toward Tais, Morehead district, South Fly, 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.