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Documentation of the Bantu language Mpiemo of the Central African Republic (A86c)_5

https://doi.org/10.5878/001682
The overall aim of the study has been to document and preserve the minority language Mpiemo as well as to analyse it from a linguistic perspective. The language is spoken in some regions of the Central African Republic and Cameroon. The language is classified as A86c according to the Guthrie system and has approximately 29,000 speakers. When the project started there was a translation of the four gospels with a French-based orthography, but no other texts. The documentation has spanned several projects from 1998 onwards and has resulted in, amongst other things, a number of articles on Mpiemo phonetics, phonology, morphology as well as the publication of recorded speech together with transcripts and annotations and texts about the local wild plant life. Purpose: The purpose of the project has been to document and linguistically analyse the Central African language Mpiemo by means of varying subprojects. The dataset contains recordings of elicitation sessions that deal with stops and implosives.

Citation and access

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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

  • Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg - Department of Languages and Literatures

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Data contains personal data:

No

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Method and outcome

Population:

Mpiemo

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Data collection

Time period(s) for data collection:

1998 - 2008

Source of the data:

  • Population group

Geographic coverage

Geographic location:

Geographic description:

Nola, southwestern Central African Republic.

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit:

Department of Languages and Literatures

Funding

Funding agency:

  • Swedish Research Council

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Publications

Citation:

Thornell, C. ; Ankouma, O. ; Mabessimo, A. et al. (2007). Boulettes de graines de courge, pêche, hospitalité... Enregistrements transcrits et annotés pour une documentation du mpiemo (langue bantoue de la République Centrafricaine et du Cameroun). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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  • ISBN:

    978-3-89645-281-8

Citation:

Thornell Christina & Yasuko Nagano-Madsén. 2004. Preliminaries to the phonetic structure of the Bantu language Mpiemo. In Africa & Asia, nr 4, pp 163-180. (Coauthor:). 17p.

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  • ISSN:

    1650-2019

Citation:

Thornell, C. ; Bessamia, R. ; Metekouli, Z. (2005). Des plantes à l’état sauvage chez le people mpiemo: leurs noms et leurs usages. Göteborg: Göteborg University.

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  • ISSN:

    1404-8523

Citation:

Tronnier, M. ; Thornell, C. (2000). On the initial aggregation of nasality and stops in the Bantu language Mpiemo, Proceedings. Fonetik 2000. The Swedish Phonetics Conference. May 24-26 2000-05-21. 2000 pp. 137-140.

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  • ISBN:

    91-630-9647-1

Citation:

Thornell, C. ; Tronnier, M. (1999). Morphological function, syllabic and phonetic form of nasal+plosive combinations in the Bantu language Mpiemo, Proceedings. Fonetik 99. The Swedish Phonetics Conference. June 2-4 1999. (1999) pp. 137-140.

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  • ISSN:

    0349-1021

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