This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Nafsan corpus (Thieberger & Brickell 2019), originally published in August 2019 with version 1908 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 The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately.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.

The Nafsan [sout2856] language, also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language spoken on the island of Efate in central Vanuatu. As of 2005, there are approximately 6 000 speakers of Nafsan living in coastal villages from Pango to Eton. A description of the language can be found in Thieberger (2006).

The Multi-CAST Nafsan corpus constitutes a subset of the material collected by Nick Thieberger for his PhD research over three periods of fieldwork in the villages of Eratap and Erakor in South Efate between 1995 and 2000, and during subsequent trips. The entirety of the data has been archived in PARADISEC, and can also be accessed via ANNIS. See further Thieberger (2004).

The texts were glossed with GRAID by Nick Thieberger and Timothy Brickell, and subsequently annotated with RefIND by Adrian Kuqi under supervision of Stefan Schnell.

Citation
Thieberger, Nick & Brickell, Timothy. 2018. Multi-CAST Nafsan. 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.
Thieberger, Nick. 2004. Documentation in practice: Developing a linked media corpus of South Efate. In Austin, Peter (ed.), Language documentation and description, 169–178. London: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS.
Thieberger, Nick. 2006. A grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (hdl.handle.net/11343/31242)