OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073980

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Title:		First session of image description in Kelleng
		Ndob-Visual-Stimuli-01
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor (consultant):		Bonje
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-03-20
Description:		Elicitation of vocabulary using visual stimuli is built around an interaction involving a consultant, the main researcher, and research assitants. Stimuli consist in collections of pictures which document the immediate social and natural environements of Kelleng village. Pictures are displayed on a computer screen; the view is zoomed in in such a way that the consultants can easily visually identify the object to be elicited. The main researcher points at the image, then the consultant responds by giving the name by which the pointed referent object is identified in the community.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		Ndog-Bikim is the elicited speech variety, and Basaa is the eliciting language. There are casual usage of French, as the session is attended by children, who are mostly brought up speaking French.
		Bonje is the village chief's representative for Ndog-Bikim village. He was born and has grown up in Ndog-Bikim, then later on moved to Douala where he has spent a number of years before coming back to his native village again. He is married a father. When asked to state his ethnic identity, Bonje declares without ambiguity that he is Bati. When further questionned as to why being a Bati, he is not able to speak other Bati varieties, he responds that, this is a social fact he has inherited from his parents. At this stage of our research, it is not clear whether claimed identity of Ndog-Bikim inhabitants as Bati people is natural, or is the result of the Canton's territorial delineation by the administration, to include Ndog-Bikim village, as opposed to Mbay-Bati for example.
		Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073980
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1073980%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Stimuli
		playback
		Elicitation of recordings
Type:		Video
		Audio
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:MPI1073980
DateStamp:		2018-01-11
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Citation:		Bonje (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher). 2016-03-20. Ngué Um Emmanuel.