This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Uruangnirin corpus (Visser 2025), originally published in July 2025 with version 2507 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 The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately.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.

Uruangnirin [urua1244] is an Austronesian language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by some 400 people across four villages on the two eastern Karas Islands. Uruangnirin is under pressure from the local lingua franca, a variant of Papuan Malay, and is not currently spoken by people born after 2000. The texts in this corpus are narratives about cultural events like collecting the bride price and about work like the nutmeg harvest or building a house. They were all recorded in the winter of 2022/2023 as part of a documentation project funded by the Endangered Languages Programme, which in turn is part of the author's postdoctoral project on Uruangnirin funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundations. All Uruangnirin materials are archived at ELAR.

Citation
Visser, Eline. 2025. Multi-CAST Uruangnirin. 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.