Introduction
The “Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition” collects audio recordings of commonly used words in the Central Yi, Miao, Bai, Southern Yi, Northern Yi, and Naxi languages that refer to music and dance genres and activities among ethnic minority communities, which mainly exist in their oral traditions. Taking the audio recordings of these words as a central point, the ECura project connects them to their corresponding written scripts (using Chinese, English, and the International Phonetic Alphabet). Users from these language groups can then access and browse materials through their Indigenous languages. Meanwhile, external viewers interested in these traditions can still access materials via English, Chinese, or IPA. (The ECura project also aims to include oral music traditions from other ethnic minority groups in the next few years.) Please choose one of the ethnic minorities from Central Yi, Miao, Bai, Southern Yi, Northern Yi, or Naxi. Then use the search engine by entering English or Chinese to find their corresponding audio (both spoken and sung examples in their original languages), IPA, and English/Chinese.
CONTRIBUTORS | Yi Database: Audio (Rongxiu Luo, Zi’an Guo, Zhengjun Guo); Chinese Text (Xiaowei Guo, Rongxiu Luo); English translation (Jin Dai, Keyi Liu); English proof-reading (Mary Dillon, Xingfu Li); IPA (Wei Li, Xingfu Li). Miao Database: Audio (Xuede Li); Chinese Text (Xuede Li, Keyi Liu); English translation (Lihua Su, Yunhui Yang, Haiyan Long, Yalun Yang); IPA (Haiping Zhang and Weiyang Wang). Bai Database: Audio (Sen Yang); Chinese Text (Sen Yang, Keyi Liu); English translation (Xuemei Li, Hongqiao Zhu); IPA (Sen Yang, Haizhen Guo). Naxi Database: Audio (Cheng Mu, Huiqiong He, Yunpeng He, Dongyue He, Zhifang Zhao, Xiafen He, Yaowei He, Xiquan He, Jingliang He, and Liqiu He); Chinese Text (Cheng Mu and Tingting Tang); English translation (Shuyuan Shi and Tingting Tang); IPA (Aixin He). Yi (S) Database: Audio (Zhengzhong Yang; Jinfa Li, Qiong Zhang, Zhao Pu); Chinese Text (Jinfa Li); English translation (Jinfa Li and Lijuan Qian); IPA (Jinfa Li). Yi (N) Database: Audio (Tou Shi); Chinese Text (Tou SHi); English translation (Hongqiao Zhu, Lijuan Qian). Database Design & Management: Lijuan Qian. Database Technician: Kai Zhao. Database Entry Editing: Keyi Liu, Tingting Tang, Xi Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Yalun Yang, Shangcheng Ye, Decheng Shao.
FOUNDER: The European Research Council (ECura, 101039864, ERC-2021-STG).
Check our ECura multilingual database of Yunnan ethnic minority music @ http://www.ecuraarchive.org/home
