Work Description

Date: 17 April, 2025

Dataset Title: Tigemaxo (Bozo) tones audio tour

Dataset Creators: Jeffrey Heath

Dataset Contact: Jeffrey Heath, [email protected]

Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Overview:
This work consists of seven short audio files with linguist Jeffrey Heath commenting on tonal patterns in the Tigemaxo language (Bozo family, Mali), and with example phrases and sentences spoken by native speaker Oumar Dienta from Dia village. See the pdf “Tigemaxo_audio_tour_guide” included here for transcriptions.

Methodology:
Recorded commentary by linguist Heath accompanied by native speaker Oumar Dienta. Recorded in wav format with Tascam digital recorder. Recorded in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

Files contained here:
Tigemaxo_audio_tour_guide.pdf
-transcriptions for all seven audio files

020323_0923_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_1_nouns.wav
-noun stems

020323_0924_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_2_nouns_medially.wav
-noun stems in different clausal positions

020323_0925_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_3_intransitives.wav
-verb stems including perfective/imperfective morphology

020323_0927_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_4_ki_and_xa.wav
-H-toned first plural and second plural pronouns in various positions

020323_0928_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_5_3Sg_3Pl_LogoRefl.wav
-third singular and third plural pronouns, in contrast to logophoric-reflexive singular and plural pronouns

020323_0928b_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_6_1Sg.wav
-tonal effect of first singular pronominal on the following stem

020323_0929_Tigemaxo_tones_audio_tour_7_Cv_postpositions.wav
-tones of postpositions

Use and Access:
This data set is made available under a Creative Commons Public Domain license (CC0 1.0).

To Cite Data:
Heath, J. Tigemaxo (Bozo) tones audio tour [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/9g11-sk15