OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281049

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Title:		Cross-dialectal-Description
		Cross-dialectal-Grammar-Elicitation
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor (consultant):		NSUMB-B
		MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2018-08-15
Description:		For symbolic reasons, the investigator has invited the two informants from both Kelleng and Nyambat dialects to come at the top of Ngog-Lituba, the mytical rock which is believed to be the cradle of the broad Basaa-Bati-Mpôô group. The investigator actually stands as the third informant representing the Basaa (Mbene) speech variety. The session unfolds as follows: the investigator utters a sentence or phrase in Basaa (Mbene dialect) then each of the two other informants repeat the same construction in their respective dialects (Nyambat and Kelleng).
		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.
		The investigator uses a questionnaire of pre-defined construction in Basaa (Mbene dialect) and asks for their equivalent in Nyambat (dialect of Bati) then in Kelleng (dialect of Bati).
		Elicitation is done in Basaa, Nyambat (Dialect of Bati) and Kelleng (dialect of Bati)
		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).
		Nsumb Boniface is a native of Nyambat. He is a relative to Mbombog Njambga Nicolas. According to Mbombog Njambga Nicolas, Nsumb Boniface's grand father was one of the traditional priests (Mbombog) to who the catholic church have abducted and confiscated their priestly artifacts as the church waged the conquest over Mbombole. Nsumb boniface is a trained tourist guide. He declares to be one of those inhabitants of the Bati Canton who best knows about the topography of Mbombole, even though he did not agree to disclose this knowledge to the research team.
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
Format:		video/mp4
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Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281049
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1281049%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Discourse
		Unspecified
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:MPI1281049
DateStamp:		2019-07-05
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Citation:		NGUE UM (researcher); NSUMB-B (consultant); MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant). 2018-08-15. Ngué Um Emmanuel.