Ngoni - Language, Culture and Sociolinguistic Situation - Photo Elicitation Traditional Objects
type: Dataset
description: The project comprised three interrelated parts: A main project Language documentation and analysis of Ngoni, which was a joint project by Tove Rosendal and Gastor Mapunda, and two subprojects: The Ngoni culture - a documentation project (Gastor Mapunda), and Language vitality and intergenerational transmission of the language Ngoni - a sociolinguistic survey (Tove Rosendal). The archived data are from the project part Language documentation and analysis of Ngoni. It consists of a set of recordings from elicitations using photos depicting local community situations (agriculture i.e. a farming scene, kitchen, i.e. an outdoor cooking scene and 'modern items'), and a set of recordings based on photos of old, traditional items. In both sets of recordings the informants were encouraged to talk rather freely in Ngoni about the concepts in the photos and how these items are used, after a short introduction in Ngoni by a native speaker. Code-switching with Swahili was found in all recordings, but to a varying degree. The transcriptions of the recordings are filed here, in addition to some photos of informants in an elicitation situation. Swahili spelling conventions are used for the transcriptions. Additionally, you will find a map indicating the villages where the recordings were made. The recordings were conducted in the Songea Rural District, east of Lake Nyasa in the Ruvuma Region in southwestern Tanzania in November-December 2012 and in August-September 2013, in the Songea Rural District which is situated in the geographically middle of the Ngoni speaking area. In addition, some recordings were made in Michungwani in Tanga District in September 2013. The data recorded in Songea District were collected in linguistically and socio-economically different contexts, in the villages Peramiho, Mhepai and Kilagano. Peramiho is a semi-urban centre, situated 24 kilometers northwest of Songea town. The area is also home to German Benedictine Catholic missionaries who settled in th…
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Mapunda, Gastor & Rosendal, Tove. 2015. Borrowing in Tanzanian Ngoni lexicon: Some semantic trends in a language contact situation. Language Matters. Volume 46, Issue 2, pp 180-194. DOI 10.1080/10228195.2015.1027484
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Tove Rosendal & Gastor Mapunda. 2017. Contact-induced language alternation in Tanzanian Ngoni - an empirical study of frequency and patterns, International Journal of Multilingualism, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp 463-477. DOI 10.1080/14790718.2016.1156684
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Mapunda, G. och Rosendal, T. (2014) Is the Tanzanian Ngoni language threatened? A survey of lexical borrowing from Swahili. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 35, no 3, pp. 271-288 DOI 10.1080/01434632.2013.864659
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  name: Rosendal, Tove. 2016. Language transmission and use in a bilingual setting in rural Tanzania. Findings from an in-depth study of Ngoni. In Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger. Issues of documentation, policy and language rights Eds. Martin Pütz & Luna Filipović (series IMPACT Studies in Language and Society) pp 335-.349. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI 10.1075/impact.42-14ros
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creative work status: completed
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creator: Tove Rosendal
  type: Person
  affiliation: University of Gothenburg
  family name: Rosendal
  given name: Tove
creator: Gastor Mapunda
  type: Person
  affiliation: University of Dar es Salaam
    type: Organization
    department: Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
  family name: Mapunda
  given name: Gastor
date modified: 2020-01-27
date published: 2014-12-19
language: Ngoni
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/002469
keywords: Language and linguistics
keywords: Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
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keywords: Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
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  term code: 60201
keywords: Ngoni
keywords: code-switching
keywords: endangered languages
keywords: Swahili
keywords: language documentation
keywords: language contact
keywords: borrowing
publisher: University of Gothenburg
spatial coverage: Tanzania
spatial coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa
temporal coverage: 2013-08/2013-09
version: 1.0

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