This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Bora corpus (Seifart & Hong 2022), originally published in July 2022 with version 2207 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Bora [bora1263] is a Boran language spoken in various small communities in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon region (e.g. 3.23°S 71.99°W, 1.75°S 72.50°W). The language has approximately 1 000 speakers, almost all of whom are bilingual in local Spanish. The number of children acquiring Bora is currently decreasing.

Bora has been extensively documented within a VolkswagenStiftung-funded DOBES documentation project (2005–2009). The Multi-CAST Bora corpus consists of two folkloristic narrative texts taken from the larger DOBES collection. They were recorded and annotated by Frank Seifart in collaboration with, especially, Clever Panduro (original transcription and translation) and Lena Sell (original morphological glossing). Annotations with GRAID and RefIND were added to the corpus in 2021–2022 by Tai Hong in collaboration with Frank Seifart.

Citation
Schnell, Stefan. 2015. Multi-CAST Vera'a. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.