{"id":6429,"date":"2024-04-08T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T08:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2024-04-08T08:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T08:14:19","slug":"jamiekan-ina-wielz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2024\/04\/08\/jamiekan-ina-wielz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamiekan ina Wielz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jamiekan<\/a>Select any video clip named in this landscape<\/a><\/strong> poster, or use the phone-friendly portrait<\/a><\/strong> layout.<\/em><\/p>\n

Island Voices is extending its \u201clanguage capture and curation\u201d model, with CIALL<\/a> support, to new contexts, new genres, and new languages, including the recording of aspects of UK-based Jamaican language use. Gaelic enthusiasts can rest assured this development does not represent a move away from our key linguistic interest in the Outer Hebrides! Far from it, as we engage with other language communities near and far, new opportunities are created for fresh spoken material in video format in Gaelic (and English \u2013 and other languages).<\/p>\n

We recently filmed Jamaica-born, but London-raised, artist and poet Audrey West at her home in Wales. (Keen followers may well recognise Audrey from her previous contribution to our \u201cTalking Points with Norman Maclean\u201d<\/a> debates.) We have now created Island Voices-style short video clips in the familiar \u201cdocumentary\u201d and \u201cinterview\u201d formats, while adding a third category of \u201crecitation\u201d, newly included to capture Audrey\u2019s poetry. These films are all listed in the poster above. You can click for either landscape<\/a> or portrait<\/a> versions to access live links to any and all of the videos created.*\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also indebted to Dr Joseph Farquharson from the University of the West Indies Jamaican Language Unit (another Talking Points contributor!), for overseeing the creation of the documentary script in the institutionally approved Cassidy-JLU orthography. Joseph and the JLU team have been extremely busy recently, also providing expert advice to Kingsley Ben-Adir and other cast and production team members for the “Bob Marley: One Love” biopic. As one commenter(!) put it, this YouTube discussion<\/a> provides \u201creally interesting insights into how skilled linguistic, particularly phonetic, analysis and description can percolate beyond academia and deliver practical applied impact. Bravo JLU!\u201d<\/p>\n

This system has enabled regularised subtitling of the clip on sound linguistic principles. Ironically, as YouTube\/Google Translate does not recognise Jamaican as a language, we have paradoxically been forced to label the language used in the Jamaican documentary as \u201cEnglish\u201d in order to be able to add the proper Cassidy-JLU subtitles which underline its separate status! We can confidently predict that the YouTube auto-translate function, which we normally commend, is going to struggle with this!<\/p>\n

Our aim, in due course, will be to also create a Clilstore transcript incorporating the new Custom Dictionary tool, along similar lines to previous contributions<\/a> from the Jamaican Language Unit.<\/p>\n

We have been demonstrating for some time through \u201cOther Tongues<\/a>\u201d that the re-purposing in different languages of documentary work in our local community context can be accomplished relatively easily and simply. And we most recently illustrated this at scale with the Children\u2019s Parliament in Barra<\/a> film. The wider point is that this can be a 2-way street, or perhaps a multi-lane spaghetti junction! With Audrey\u2019s documentary we\u2019ve started with a film made originally in Jamaican and, in a reversal of previous examples, worked up a Gaelic version from it. Not only that, we\u2019ve got Welsh and English versions too!<\/p>\n

As hinted in our Duncan Ban MacIntyre<\/a> piece, \u201cJamaican in Wales\u201d is just the first of a short series of collections in similar style that explore new fields for Island Voices, including poetic expression, and in \u201cdisplaced\u201d or \u201cexile\u201d contexts. This is work in progress, with more to come from other island geographies.<\/p>\n

Di stuori stil a gwaan. Jos laik Bob Marley se, \u201cWi faawad in dis jenarieshun chrayomfantli!\u201d<\/p>\n

*September 2025 update<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Since original publication two new versions of the documentary have been added to the collection in\u00a0Catalan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Portuguese<\/strong><\/a>, with accompanying transcripts and background information.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Select any video clip named in this landscape poster, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Island Voices is extending its \u201clanguage capture and curation\u201d model, with CIALL support, to new contexts, new genres, and new languages, including the recording of aspects of UK-based Jamaican language use. Gaelic enthusiasts can rest assured this development does not … Continue reading Jamiekan ina Wielz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[10,40,42,54],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video","tag-applied-linguistics","tag-gaelic","tag-gaidhlig","tag-jamiekan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}