OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034556

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Title:		Beginnings of a wedding ceremony at the village of the bride
		wedding: preparing the gifts
		Documentation of Baga Mandori (Atlantic, NIger-Congo) (ISO 639-3:bmd)
Contributor (recorder):		Frank
Coverage:		Guinea
Date:		2014-03-28
Description:		From left to right: p029, p022
		This project delivers the first in-depth linguistic documentation of any of the Baga languages spoken in the Basse-Côte region of Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. Baga Mandori (also Baga Ma(n)duri), the focus of this project, belongs to the Atlantic (Niger-Congo phylum) group of languages and is part of the Mel cluster. Baga Mandori represents one of the two linguistic communities – the other being Baga Sitemu – that still use a Baga variety in intra-communal communication to some degree. The language is, however, under pressure by Soso, a Mande language and the dominant lingua franca of the region. This project will employ an immersive research approach, which aims to deliver a diverse and integrated multimedia documentary archive that will combine linguistic documentation with community training and participation. Linguistic documentation will be in the form of a trilingual dictionary (Baga Mandori-English-French), an extensive grammatical outline, an orthography, and annotated and transcribed audio-visual material from a variety of linguistic genres.
		This recording shows the preparation of the gift calabash that will be given to the family of the wife during the official part of the wedding ceremony at the village of the wife, when the wife is taken from her home to move into the residence of the groom where the second part of the wedding will be celebrated. I am not sure about the familial affiliations of the two main protagonists here, but the guy in the yellow shorst is a representative of the groom.
		He said that he is 35 years old, but then we established that it was long before Lansana Conté took power that he was born. He already had 2 children at that time. He also said that he was born durng the reign of Sekou Touré By estimating that he was about 22 years old at that time, we arrive at an age of 54. He studied to be a mason and builder with a local mason at Dobali. He says that he has been doing this for 8 years. He is not a member of a Sèrè. He is not initiated. He does not move around very often and goes to Kamsar maybe once a year, he says. He says he moves around in the immediate region around Dobali.
		p001 is the main researcher in this project which he runs from the University of Florida. He is emplyed as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies. This is his second language documentation project. In the first documentation project he documented the Atlantic language Nalu (naj) spoken in close proximity to Baga Mandori (bmd).
		He says that he was born during the second year after the opening of the military camp in 1972 (as given by p031) close to Bitonko. He goes to Kamsar maybe five times during a year to stay for a week or a month. He also goes to Conakry, or Guinea-Bissau to sell some of his produce.
		He is p002 of the Nalu project deposit at ELAR (deposit: 0249). See description and notes there.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/mp4
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034556
		PD-50029-13
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1034556%23
Publisher:		Frank Seidel
		University of Florida
Subject:		Discourse
		Conversation
Type:		Audio
		Video
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034556
DateStamp:		2016-11-05
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Citation:		Frank (recorder). 2014-03-28. Frank Seidel.