README FILE FOR "Dogon Bunoge" audio

Background:


These audio files are recordings of people speaking the Bunoge language (Dogon language family) in Boudou village (east of Mopti), Mali, in the year 2015. They were recorded by Jeffrey Heath in one session. Because of technical problems with our normal recording devices, the recordings were made directly into a Macintosh laptop using QuickTime Player, in .mov format. 

Bunoge is a small-population Dogon language spoken in Boudou and two other small villages on the western edge of the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau, west of Mopti, Mali.

There is a reference grammar of this language. It is available online:
Jeffrey Heath, A grammar of Bunoge.
http://ldh.clld.org/2017/03/01/escidoc2417511/ 
with backup at
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/139023

At the end of the grammar, some of the recordings in this work are transcribed and translated. 

The full inventory of these recordings is given below. The texts preceded by * are transcribed and translated at the end of the grammar (pp. 339-357).

2015-01 greetings and initial conversations
	duration 00:47

*2015-02 history of Boudou, part 1
	duration 00:32

*2015-03 history of Boudou, part 2
	duration 00:52

2015-04 farming methods
	duration 01:58

*2015-05 carts and gardening
	duration 01:37

2015-06 farming
	duration 00:51

2015-07 wells, road, and school
	duration 01:28

*2015-08 tale: Hyena and Hare
	duration 02:19

*2015-09 tale: The lion, the old woman, and the hyena
	duration 01:08

The recordings 2015-01, 2015-04, 2015-06, and 2015-07 have not yet been transcribed or translated. Jeffrey Heath hereby grants others the right to transcribe, translate, or otherwise work on these recordings.

Excerpts of these translations are provided as a pdf document with the Data Set “Dogon Bunoge Boudou Audio Files” (https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/concern/generic_works/r781wg88q?locale=en) to provide a translation for the following audio files:
Boudou 02 history March 2015
Boudou 03 history March 2015
Boudou 05 carts gardening March 2015
Boudou 08 tale March 2015
Boudou 09 tale March 2015

The excerpt uses colored text to connote its purpose:
black text = the main text
blue text = regular phonological transcriptions for this language
green text = transcriptions for other languages, *reconstructions, [phonetic transcriptions], and formulae

 
LICENSE
 
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