Goran Language Documentation

Recordines of Geser-Gorom Speech (ISO 639-3: ges),
Backup of Flex file of Goran language, consent form, Syntax questionnaire. Item 'Lexicon' contains a FLEx File of lexicals and interlinearised videos from ELAN.

Geser-Gorom (ISO 639-3 code: ges) is an Austronesian language within the the Seram-Tanimbar-Bomberai subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian branch spoken by the indigenous community at Gorom Island, Maluku, Indonesia. Actually, Gorom Island consists of three islands: Gorom Island, Panjang Island, and Amarsikaru Island. However, people in these islands call their language Goran, not Gorom. The data collection was taken in Gorom Island, especially in three villages, namely Ondor, Rumanama, and Kelibingan. These data consist of video recordings, 1,165 lexical items of the Goran language, and a syntactic structure questionnaire. Eline Visser supervises this project, while John A. Pattipeluhu conducts the fieldwork data collection.