OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1034557

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Title:		The local authorities are informed about the marriage ceremony
		wedding: informing the village chief and his relatives
		Documentation of Baga Mandori (Atlantic, NIger-Congo) (ISO 639-3:bmd)
Contributor (recorder):		Frank
Coverage:		Guinea
Date:		2014-03-28
Description:		From left to right: p049, p027, p029, p023
		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.
		His name is xxx xxx and he appears in two clips related to the wedding ceremony recorded. I could not get his data or explicit consent recorded, because he lived in a village further away. It is interesting that he could not speak Baga Mandori, yet he is related to the family, as I was told.
		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 is part of the Sèrè, that is he just founded a Sèrè with about 25 or 30 people, that does not have a name yet. The Sèrè is for mutual support. He is the leader of the Sèrè. He also part of another association that does not have a name, it is also for mutual support. Nowadays he mostly stays at Kakrunt, and moves around to go to Kamsar, Boké, or Conakry. He can leave about 3-4 times to visit relatives in those places.
		He said that he is 80 years old. However, we established that he was born around the time when Sekou Touré took power, which puts his age at around 55. In the interview he made an interesting comment claiming that his father only knew Baga, which is then countered by his claim that his father had married a Susu wife. His mother was from Boffa. He stays mostly in Bitonko during the year. He sometimes goes to Boke, Kamsar, Conakry, Fria to visit relatives. He moves around alot in the region (Kamsar and Boke, is where he sells his goods (groundnuts). Each month he leaves Bitonko maybe 2-3 times to move around in the region. He also goes to Bissau to visit relatives (he visits the capital and/or villages/cities close to the border). He says that there are no Baga villages in Bissau, but some familymembers went to reside with the Nalu and Balanta.
		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:MPI1034557
		PD-50029-13
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1034557%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:MPI1034557
DateStamp:		2016-11-05
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Citation:		Frank (recorder). 2014-03-28. Frank Seidel.