OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034560

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Title:		p022 and p029 talk about the wedding ceremonies preparations
		wedding_discussing_preparations
		Documentation of Baga Mandori (Atlantic, NIger-Congo) (ISO 639-3:bmd)
Contributor (recorder):		Frank
Coverage:		Guinea
Date:		2014-03-28
Description:		[Why did I have noted Fode Amara Camara here? It is probably a mistake, but just in cIt ase.]
		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.
		It is notable that the two interlocuters sit close together. While probably not a hard and fast rule, but I think spacial organization of interlocuters can signal open and public discussions vs. private discussions. The two interlocuters here sat down without me directing any seating arrangements. The contrast with the spacial organization in conversation at Bel-Bel is striking, where the interlocuters sit very far apart.
		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.
		He said that he is 35 years old, but then we established that it was long before Lansana Conté took power that he was born. He already had 2 children at that time. He also said that he was born durng the reign of Sekou Touré By estimating that he was about 22 years old at that time, we arrive at an age of 54. He studied to be a mason and builder with a local mason at Dobali. He says that he has been doing this for 8 years. He is not a member of a Sèrè. He is not initiated. He does not move around very often and goes to Kamsar maybe once a year, he says. He says he moves around in the immediate region around Dobali.
		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:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034560
		PD-50029-13
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1034560%23
Publisher:		Frank Seidel
		University of Florida
Type:		Video
		Audio
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034560
DateStamp:		2016-11-05
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Citation:		Frank (recorder). 2014-03-28. Frank Seidel.