OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073549

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Title:		Interaction among women during farm cultivation
		Kell-Interaction-at-Work_02
		Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		MAKON
		ASSOMO
Contributor (consultant):		KITOUGA
		TONYE
		MBOCK
		Nathalie
		Dorothée
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-07-25
Description:		This recording was performed on the occasion of a work group session, as part of the Women's Association's activities. This recording documents farming practices as they are performed in Kelleng, and probably in other related neighboring villages in the savanah area of the Mbam region. Work group sessions are performed on a cyclic basis, to the benefit of each group member, one after another. Work group sessions are planned on weekly basis during cultivation seasons.
		The documentation of Bati language and oral traditions aims at creating a repository of language and cultural data representative of the five varieties spoken in the Bati Canton, in the Littoral region of Cameroon. Number of Bati speakers is estimated at 800. The resulting corpus will lay the empirical ground for cross-dialectal studies in linguistics and others fields in the humanities such as anthropology, which will better inform on the bi-vectorial dynamics of Bati language and identity, torn as they are, between the Mbam and the Basaa groups respectively.
		The session is played around a language repertoire which melts different language varieties, among which Kelleng seems to emerge as the dominant variety, based on statistics calculation (See Ngué Um, to appear) on a similar recording, and which may be arguably extrapolated to the present situation. Other speech varieties include: Bisoo, Basaa, Baca, Eton, and French.
		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.
Format:		video/mp4
		image/jpeg
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
		text/x-pfsx+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073549
		MDP 0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1073549%23
Publisher:		Emmanuel Ngue Um
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Interaction
		Free-conversation
		Gossiping
Type:		Video
		Image
		Audio
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:MPI1073549
DateStamp:		2018-01-11
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Citation:		KITOUGA (consultant); TONYE (consultant); MBOCK (consultant); Nathalie (consultant); Dorothée (consultant); MAKON; NGUE UM (researcher); ASSOMO. 2016-07-25. Emmanuel Ngue Um.