OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034558

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Title:		The local imam is informed
		wedding: informing the imam
		Documentation of Baga Mandori (Atlantic, NIger-Congo) (ISO 639-3:bmd)
Contributor (recorder):		Frank
Coverage:		Guinea
Date:		2014-03-28
Description:		This project delivers the first in-depth linguistic documentation of any of the Baga languages spoken in the Basse-Côte region of Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. Baga Mandori (also Baga Ma(n)duri), the focus of this project, belongs to the Atlantic (Niger-Congo phylum) group of languages and is part of the Mel cluster. Baga Mandori represents one of the two linguistic communities – the other being Baga Sitemu – that still use a Baga variety in intra-communal communication to some degree. The language is, however, under pressure by Soso, a Mande language and the dominant lingua franca of the region. This project will employ an immersive research approach, which aims to deliver a diverse and integrated multimedia documentary archive that will combine linguistic documentation with community training and participation. Linguistic documentation will be in the form of a trilingual dictionary (Baga Mandori-English-French), an extensive grammatical outline, an orthography, and annotated and transcribed audio-visual material from a variety of linguistic genres.
		We established that he was about 15 years old when Sekou Touré took power (his fourth young brother was born then), which puts his age at around 73. He is the Imam that preaches at Difiare. He got his title of Fode at Boffa. He has been Imam 17 years at Difiare, before that he had been Imam at Bitonko for about 3 years. He leads (with p047) the Koranic School at Bitonko with currently about 10 students. Even though they run the school together, the students are divided between them. The 10 are the students attributed to his household. p047 was his student. He took over from his father 2 or three years before Sekou Touré died. He played soccer, but was never paid for it. He is not part of a Séré but of the Islamic League. He is not initiated. He does not remember the last initiation, the religious center was apparantly at Dobali. He claims that nothing was done at Bitonko. He does not move around much, but if he goes he goes to Boké, Kamsar, Kanfarandé for personal affiairs. He lived 3 years at Difiare.
		He says that he was born during the second year after the opening of the military camp in 1972 (as given by p031) close to Bitonko. He goes to Kamsar maybe five times during a year to stay for a week or a month. He also goes to Conakry, or Guinea-Bissau to sell some of his produce.
		p001 is the main researcher in this project which he runs from the University of Florida. He is emplyed as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies. This is his second language documentation project. In the first documentation project he documented the Atlantic language Nalu (naj) spoken in close proximity to Baga Mandori (bmd).
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/mp4
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034558
		PD-50029-13
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1034558%23
Publisher:		Frank Seidel
		University of Florida
Subject:		Discourse
Type:		Audio
		Video
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034558
DateStamp:		2016-11-05
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Citation:		Frank (recorder). 2014-03-28. Frank Seidel.