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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Rudolf,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I asked your questions to a colleague, Jordan Haug, who is finishing up his dissertation about a community on Misima Island that is in the kula ring. The main answer is that,
like the parts of Papua New Guinea I am familiar with, people in the kula ring are multilingual: kula participants often have some knowledge of 3 languages or so. The other answer is that Dobu is a regional lingua franca, with the languages Muyuw and Pana
Misima also spoken during kula transactions across large chunks of the region. Kula transactions taking place in or near Alotau, the regional town center, are more likely to be conducted in English.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The language spoken in the Trobriands is called Kilivila (by Trobrianders and others). Jordan reports that many folks in the part of the kula ring near Misima find Kilivila difficult,
and prefer Dobu, Muyuw, Pana Misima, or Ware, all languages that are quite similar to one another (and all a bit different from Kilivila).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Susanne Kuehling works on Dobu and is currently working on a documentary about contemporary kula. I’m not sure when that project will be finished.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Linganth <linganth-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of "Gaudio, Rudolf" <Rudolf.Gaudio@purchase.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:02 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org" <LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Linganth] Language & the Kula Ring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I use excerpts from Malinowski’s work on the Kula ring regularly in my classes, and have long wanted to know more about the linguistic dimensions of Kula trading expeditions. Malinowski labels the language he learned Kiriwinian, which suggests
it was only spoken on the island of Kiriwina. What about the other islands? I’ve tried to figure out the sociolinguistic situation in the Trobriand Islands (then and now) using widely available online sources, and have done a wee bit of searching through more
academic sources, but I haven’t found anything that specifically describes what language(s) Malinowski’s Kiriwinian associates used when they visited or hosted people from different islands. Were all the languages of the region mutually intelligible? Was everyone
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