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Dogon and Bangime flora terms from central Mali (2023)

Creator:: Heath, Jeffrey
Description:: The spreadsheets (in csv and xlsx formats) have columns for botanical family, genus-species binomials, synonymy (outdated binomials) on the left, folllowed by columns with native terms in several Dogon languages and in Bangime. Dogon languages included are Toro Tegu, Ben Tey, Bankan Tey, Nanga, Jamsay (main dialect), Perge Tegu (Jamsay of Pergé village), Gourou (aberrant variety of Jamsay), Togo Kan, Yorno So and Ibi So (in Toro So dialect complex), Donno So, Tomo Kan (of Segué and of Diangassagou), Tomo Kan, Dogul Dom, Tebul Ure, Yanda Dom, Najamba, Tiranige, Mombo, Ampari, Bunoge, and Penange. JH in column headings indicates that the material is from Dr. Heath's fieldwork. and For images of many of these plants, see the collection "Mali flora images" in Deep Blue Data ( https://doi.org/10.7302/aef4-fk26). For a practical guide to these plants, click on the link below in "related items in Deep Blue Documents".
Keyword:: Dogon, Bangime, and flora
Discipline:: Humanities

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Creator:: Heath, Jeffrey G.
Description:: This is a collection of photos of villages located primarily in Central Mali. These photos are primarily of Dogon villages, but there are village photos of other nearby ethnicities, including Bangande, Fulbe, Tuareg, Songay, and Bozo.These photos were taken to document the villages Professor Jeffrey Heath worked in and people he worked with while documenting languages throughout the region. For interactive geographical maps involving these villages see: http://dogonlanguages.org/geography.cfm.
Keyword:: Jamsay, Bangime, Tamashek, Ampari, Bannkan Tey, Ben Tey, Atlantic Fulfulde, Bunoge, Dogul Dom, Donno So, Mombo, Najamba-Kindige, Nanga, Penange, Tebul Ure, Tengou-Togo, Tiranige, Tommo So, Toro So, Tomo Kan, Toro Tegu, Yanda Dom, Moore, Bozo Jenama, Manding Bambara, Fulankiriya, Humburi Senni, Dogon, Fulbe, Bozo, Songhay, Tuareg, and Bangande
Citation to related publication:: www.dogonlanguages.org, http://dogonlanguages.org/geography.cfm, and http://dogonlanguages.org/sources/gpsdogonspreadsheetforllmap
Discipline:: Humanities

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Creator:: Heath, Jeffrey, Hantgan, Abbie , and Elders, Stefan
Description:: The work on the Bangime language, spoken by the Bangande people, was carried out as part of a larger linguistic fieldwork project focused on Dogon languages. Bangime is confirmed as a language isolate with no demonstrable linguistic relatives—possibly the only such isolate in West Africa.
Keyword:: Bangime, Mali, and Lexicon
Citation to related publication:: Heath & Hantgan. A grammar of Bangime. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. ISBN 978-3-11-055749-7
Discipline:: Humanities

Creator:: Heath, Jeffrey
Description:: images of villages in Mali in which Bangime is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
Keyword:: Mali, Bangime, and villages
Citation to related publication:: Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
Discipline:: Humanities