This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Tondano corpus (Brickell 2016), originally published in June 2016 with version 1606 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 The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately.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 Toulour dialect of Tondano [tond1251] is an Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Minahasa, North, Northeast) language spoken in and to the east of the town of Tondano, which is located in the Minahasa regency of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. All Minahasan languages are endangered and have been shifting to the most commonly used language of wider communication, Manado Malay [mala1481], since the early 20th century (Wolff 2010: 299). Personal experience of the researcher estimates the number of fluent speakers of Tondano at around 30 000.

This corpus is the result of fieldwork undertaken by Timothy Brickell as part of PhD candidature at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia between 2011 and 2015 (see Brickell 2015). The speakers recorded were of both genders, of various ages, and from a number of professions, with many older speakers already retired. The texts in Multi-CAST constitute a subset of the 20 recordings made by Brickell. In some instances speakers discuss a topic chosen just prior to recording, in others they talk while engaging in traditional activities, while in some they narrate an elicitation video which depicts other community members carrying out traditional cultural activities.

Citation
Brickell, Timothy. 2016. Multi-CAST Tondano. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Brickell, Timothy. 2015. A grammar of Tondano. Ph.D. dissertation, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
Wolff, John. Proto-Austronesian phonology. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications.