README FILE FOR “Dogon Donno So audio files”

Background:


These audio files are recordings of people speaking the Donno So (also called Kamma So) language, which belongs to the Dogon language family in east central Mali. The recordings were made in June 2014 by Jeffrey Heath, in Wendegele village near Bandiagara. The recordings were made on a handheld TASCAM digital microphone in .wav, but were unfortunately recorded at a low volume that makes audibility difficult.

The inventory of recordings is as follows:

DS 01 tale stepmother
	duration 03:47
DS 01b continuation
	duration 00:51
DS 02 tale hare
	duration 02:15
DS 03 tale squirrel
	duration 01:28
DS 04 farming
	duration 03:40
DS 05 construction
	duration 03:47
DS 05b continuation
	duration 01:10
DS 06 animals
	duration 02:06
DS 07 hunting
	duration 02:25
DS 08 herding
	duration 02:49
DS 09 report on Burkina trip
	duration 02:21
DS 10 blacksmiths
	duration 02:26
DS 11 Fulbe herders
	duration 03:12
DS 12 marriage
	duration 02:31
DS 13 koroba (singing(
	duration 01:12

A reference grammar of Donno So was published in 2017 by Jeffrey Heath. It is available online at:
	http://ldh.clld.org/2016/07/01/escidoc2491630-3/
with backup at
	http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/123062

Pp. 315-346 at the end of the grammar are transcriptions and translations of several of these texts. The correspondences of recordings to text numbers in the grammar are:

DS 02 = Text 01
DS 03 = Text 04
DS 09 = Text 02
DS 10 = Text 03
DS 11 = Text 05

Jeffrey Heath gives permission to anyone to transcribe, translate, or otherwise analyse the recordings that are not already transcribed and translated.

 
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