OLAC Record
oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030908

Metadata
Title:Child exposure and birth celebration
babanki_birth
Multimedia Documentation of Babanki Ritual Speech
Contributor:Esther
Contributor (consultant):Ba
Denis
Lucy
Dorine
John
Abwe
Emmanuel
Anna
Victor
Agnes
Mary
Susan
Contributor (researcher):Pius
Nyegem
Coverage:Cameroon
Date:2014-02-05
Description:This project documents the language of Babanki traditional ritual performances. Babanki is an endangered Grassfields language spoken in Babanki Tungo and Big Babanki, northwest of Cameroon. The language of rituals contains poetic forms, lexical items and grammatical structures not found in everyday Babanki speech. Unfortunately, these special speech forms are threatened by the strong influence of modernism and especially Christianity which have caused the number of people who still engage in ritual performances to drop drastically. Consequently, the Babanki cultural values inherent in the ritual performances are no longer cherished and transmitted to younger generations.
Pius is a Babanki native speaker who is working on developing and preserving the language.
original recording
Format:image/jpeg
video/mp4
text/x-eaf+xml
text/x-pfsx+xml
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030908
ELDP - SG0224
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1030908%23
Publisher:Pius Akumbu
University of Buea
Subject:Ritual/religious texts
Type:Image
Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030908
DateStamp:  2017-01-23
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Search Info

Citation: Pius (researcher); Nyegem (researcher); Ba (consultant); Denis (consultant); Lucy (consultant); Dorine (consultant); John (consultant); Esther; Abwe (consultant); Emmanuel (consultant); Anna (consultant); Victor (consultant); Agnes (consultant); Mary (consultant); Susan (consultant). 2014-02-05. Pius Akumbu.


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