Publication details not specified. 2009. — 385 p. The following lexicon is based on Dr. Jeffrey Heath’s Comparative Lexical Spreadsheet. Some glosses have been modified to better reflect Tɔmmɔ-Sɔ meanings, while other entries have been added or deleted entirely. The transcription system used in this dictionary differs slightly from the transcriptions in Dr. Heath’s work. First,...
USA: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011. — 127 p. Chancellor L. Bryan. Grammar of the Dogul-Dom language (In English) Sketch. Phonology. Morphology of NP Constituents. Nominal and Adjectival Compounds. Noun Phrase Structure. Coordination. Postpositions and Adverbials. Verbal Derivation. Verbal Inflection. Structure of Clauses and Predicates. Comparatives....
Berlin — New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 735 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-020113-0. Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa. This is the first comprehensive grammar of any Dogon language, including a full tonology. The language is verb-final, with subject agreement on the verb and with no other case-marking. Its most striking...
Routledge, 1997. — 576 p. This is the first detailed linguistic analysis of Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, providing data which sheds light on many previously unanswered questions about Koromfe and general linguistics. ISBN10: 0415152577 ISBN13: 978-0415152570
De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 622 p. This volume provides the first full description of the grammatical structure of Tommo So, a language of Mali, West Africa. It is one of about twenty languages of the Dogon people, best known for their masked dances and distinctive cliff villages. Like most African languages, Tommo So is tonal and displays a rich system of grammatical tone,...
Publisher: Lincom Europa Publication date: 1995 Pages: 47 Le dogon (dogosso en langue dogon) est la langue parlée par les Dogons. Selon des chiffres avancés par Vladimir Plungian en 1995, la langue dogon serait parlée par environ 600 000 personnes, principalement au Mali, mais aussi au Burkina Faso. Il s'agit en fait de plus de quinze dialectes (non-intercompréhensibles), avec...
Cultura y Sociedad, 1982. - 363 p. El análisis que este libro hace, sobre las relaciones entre la lengua y una sociedad concreta, la del pueblo dogon, constituye una síntesis ejemplar de muy diversas disciplinas, puestas al servicio de la interpretación antropológica. El pueblo dogon es una pequeña etnia que habita en la zona montañosa de Bandiagara, en el africa Occidental, y...
Cahiers d’Études africaines, XLV (1), 177, 2005, pp. 95-129. Few Africanists, indeed few an thropologists, remain as controversial as Marcel Griaule. Hailed as a hero o f French Africanist ethnography, with a prodigious output and prestigious school, and assailed as an anti-hero whose sympathy for Africa masked deeper forms of colonial violence, Griaule embodies the best and...
UCLA, 2011. — 574 p. The Dogon language family is made up of around 20 languages, and it is currently thought to constitute its own branch of the Niger-Congo phylum (Blench XXX). The languages are spoken on the plains and mountains in the eastern part of Mali’s Région de Mopti, with small crossover into Burkina Faso. The internal classification of the language family is not yet...
2007. - 45 p. The Dogon people of the Bandiagara cliffs in Mali’s Mopti Region are the superstars of anthropology, ethnography, and artists since Marcel Griaule’s (Griaule 1938; Griaule and Dieterlen 1965; Griaule 1965) famous studies of Dogon religion, spirituality, art, and culture. Griaule and his team of fieldworkers first encountered the Dogon on the Dakar to Djibouti...
2012. - 22 p. This is an annotated wordlist of the Tebul Ure language, part of the Dogon group, spoken in northern Mali. The wordlist was collected from a group of villagers in Uluban from the 28th of February to the 4th of March 2005. The wordlist was collected as a ‘one-shot’ exercise and the transcription must therefore be regarded as preliminary. This analysis was prepared...
SIL International, 2004. - 189 p. The reason for doing this survey was a desire to know whether the goal of all Dogon speakers being able to understand written material in the T¡r¡-s¡¡ speech variety is practicable. The purpose of this survey was to provide data necessary for SIL administrators in Mali to decide whether or not there is a need for SIL to be further involved in...
Publication date: 2007 Number of pages: 231 Koromfe is a Gur language spoken in a U-shaped area around the town of Djibo, in the north of Burkina Faso and southeastern Mali, bordering Dogon Country.
Publisher: University of Michigan Publication date: 2008 Number of pages: 388 The Dogon languages are spoken chiefly in eastern Mali. The predominantly Dogon area in Mali is bounded by Boni in the north, by Mopti-Sévaré in the east, and by the Bankass area to the south. It reaches to the Burkina Faso border (e.g. around Koro) in the east, and there are some extensions (probably...
University of Michigan, 2008. - 335 p. This work is part of a larger project on a number of Dogon languages, beginning with Jamsay. Dogon is a family of perhaps twenty languages, though no complete survey has been undertaken. The family is considered to be part of the vast Niger-Congo family, which includes Bantu, Mande (e.g. Bambara and Boso), and West Atlantic (e.g....
University of Michigan, 2009. — 464 p. Dogon is a division of the Niger-Congo phylum. Its genetic position within Niger-Congo is not yet clear; one suggestion is that it is closest to the Gur group. The internal genetic classification of Dogon is also unclear at this time, principally due to the lack of detailed grammatical descriptions, and the paucity of dictionaries with...
Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 21 This is an annotated wordlist of the Yanda language, part of the Dogon group, spoken in northern Mali.The wordlist was collected as a ‘one-shot’ exercise and the transcription must therefore be regarded as preliminary. This analysis was prepared by Roger Blench, who added the comparative observations. This document is being circulated...