OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055909

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Title:		Third interview session held in Kelleng on Bati's cultural life
		Kell-Anthropology_03
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		MAKON
		ASSOMO
Contributor (consultant):		BETINE
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Description:		In addition to the first two recording sessions previously held in Kelleng on cultural aspects of Bati people, a third interview was conducted. This interview is much similar to the first one; questions evolve around: the story of Bati as a community, their identity, relations with close neghbors, religious practices, mariage, etc.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		Questions and answers elvolve around the history of Bati people, their historical relationships with their closest neighbors, the history of Mbombole, Bati's identity and belief, among others.
		The interview is conducted in French. Some explanations are provided by the consultant in Bati.
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
		Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
		Betine is a native of Kelleng and has lived continuously in the village, in spite of casual excursions into the city. He claimed to have lived close to elder people, which is in justification for his knowledge of the cultural, social and religious life of the Bati people. I addition, he is a catechist fot the Protestant Church in Kelleng, which exposes him to regular interaction with not only Bati inhabitants, but also outsiders.
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
		image/jpeg
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055909
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1055909%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Interview
		semi-guided interview
		Anthropology
Type:		Video
		Audio
		Image
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055909
DateStamp:		2017-05-09
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Citation:		MAKON; NGUE UM (researcher); ASSOMO; BETINE (consultant). n.d. Ngué Um Emmanuel.