Seven short audio files and one pdf document with transcriptions for all of them: and 1) noun stems; 2) noun stems in different clausal positions; 3) verb stems including perfective/imperfective morphology; 4) H-toned first plural and second plural pronouns in various positions; 5) third singular and third plural pronouns, in contrast to logophoric-reflexive singular and plural pronouns; 6) tonal effect of first singular pronominal on the following stem; 7) tones of postpositions.
First of three works from 2024 containing tales, ethnohistory, and songs in Jalkunan language of Burkina Faso. This work contains recordings from speakers in the old quartier of Blédougou. Speakers all have family name Traoré. First names of speakers are Adama, Chiaka, Orissa, Issa, Lamissa, Lasso, Naminata, and Sali (speaker is indicated in filename). Archived here for listening and for future research by anyone. See the readme file for inventory of files.
Third of three works from 2024 containing tales, ethnohistory, and songs in Jalkunan language of Burkina Faso. This work contains recordings from speakers in the carrefour area of Blédougou. Speakers all have family name Traoré. First names of speakers are Chiata, Jeanzourou, Juma, Lomakono, N'golo, and Yaya Kinzène (speaker is indicated in filename). Archived here for listening and for future research by anyone. See the readme file for inventory of files.
Second of three works from 2024 containing tales, ethnohistory, and songs in Jalkunan language of Burkina Faso. This work contains recordings from speakers in Kokoro quartier (or village). Speakers have family name Traoré or Ouattara. They are Traoré Juma, Traoré Lasso, and Ouattara Dousou (speaker is indicated in filename). See readme file for inventory. Archived here for listening and for future research by anyone.
Documentary videos of pottery making, notably a four-part documentary of one potter's work. Credits are at the end of videos. Additional documentaries from Mali may be added later.
Spreadsheets (xlsx and csv) with flora-fauna terms for groups of native languages of interior West Africa, chiefly east-central Mali (including Dogon) and SW Burkina Faso, compiled over the years on the margins of general fieldwork on these languages. Each language has a column. and For resources including images of Mali flora, see also collection "Mali flora images" - https://doi.org/10.7302/aef4-fk26
lexicon in spreadsheet form. xlsx version has six sheets, each of which corresponds to a csv file: nouns, adjectives, numerals, other, verbs, and places. See the "readme" file for details.
lexicon of Kelenga, a Bozo language of Mali. French and English glosses are used. The xlsx version has separate sheets for nouns, adjectives, numerals, verbs, and other. Each of these sheets corresponds to a separate csv file. Each sheet is customized with data relevant to the indicated stem-class, e.g. singular and plural for nouns and perfective and imperfective stems for verbs. The files are also available on Zenodo, as files associated with "A grammar of Kelenga" ( https://zenodo.org/records/7699838).
This collection consists of supplements to reference grammars and texts for Dogon languages that are archived in Deep Blue Documents (and in most cases also at Zenodo). The supplements include audio files (wav and/or mp3), lexical spreadsheets (xlsx and/or csv), and perhaps eventually other media. Some of the audio recordings are transcribed in the reference grammars or in separate text collections. Separate lexical spreadsheets are included for Tiranige and Tebul Ure. Other Dogon languages have their own columns in the comparative Dogon lexical spreadsheet. and Related materials are available in the Deep Blue Data collections “Mali flora images” ( https://doi.org/10.7302/aef4-fk26), “Central Mali geography photos” ( https://doi.org/10.7302/0tbp-zk29 - images of villages), “Native flora-fauna term spreadsheets from interior West Africa” ( https://doi.org/10.7302/5a0d-gq20), “Central Mali documentary videos” ( https://doi.org/10.7302/4jg9-j095), and “Mali documentary videos from 2023” ( https://doi.org/10.7302/4851-2c52).
Jalkunan is a severely endangered Mande language of southwestern Burkina Faso. A grammar of Jalkunan is in Deep Blue Documents (and at Zenodo). This collection supplements the grammar with audio files (wav, mp3) and lexical spreadsheets (xlsx, csv). Some of the audio recordings (1, 2, and 4) are transcribed at the end of the grammar. and Heath, Jeffrey. A grammar of Jalkunan (Mande, Burkina Faso). 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139025
