Laal | The Language Archive

0 Descripion de l'archive laal / Description of Laal archive

Description and structure of the Laal archive; list of texts and elicitaiton sessions.

1 Laal

Laal corpus (primary data and analytical resources)

2 Autres langues / Other languages

Recordings in other languages made in and around Gori and Damtar (Boor [bvf], Boua [bub], Ndam [ndm], Fulfulde [ful], Arabe Dakhara [shu])

3 Documentaire / Documentary

"Et si Babel n'était qu'un mythe?" / "What if Babel Was Just a Myth?", by Sandrine Loncke (56min, 2019).

Details

Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/93472197-4462-489c-8cee-0d9a3587f3e5
Description: The project documents the Laal language and culture. Laal is a language isolate spoken by the ca. 800 speakers in Gori and Damtar, two villages of the Moyen-Chari region of southern Chad, as well as in the Laal community settled in various towns in the country. All data were collected between 2011 and 2018. The archive contains audio and video recordings of interviews, daily life activities, stories, cultural events, songs and dances, and linguistic elicitation. Many recordings are annotated in ELAN and Toolbox-files. The archive also includes the following analytical resources: a Laal-French-English dictionary, a Laal orthography guide, a bilingual Laal-French text collection, an ethnohistorical monograph, updated maps of the Laal-speaking regionan ethnobotanical database, a botanical monograph, and musical transcriptions. The PIs of the project are Florian Lionnet and Tom Güldemann. Researchers on the team are Florian Lionnet (linguistic documentation), Sandrine Loncke (ethnomusicology), Rémadji Hoïnathy (anthropology), and Ngomdé Djasnabaye (ethnobotany).

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- Name : Laal
- Title : Documentation of Laal
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  Description : The project documents the Laal language and culture. Laal is a language isolate spoken by the ca. 800 speakers in Gori and Damtar, two villages of the Moyen-Chari region of southern Chad, as well as in the Laal community settled in various towns in the country. All data were collected between 2011 and 2018. The archive contains audio and video recordings of interviews, daily life activities, stories, cultural events, songs and dances, and linguistic elicitation. Many recordings are annotated in ELAN and Toolbox-files. The archive also includes the following analytical resources: a Laal-French-English dictionary, a Laal orthography guide, a bilingual Laal-French text collection, an ethnohistorical monograph, updated maps of the Laal-speaking regionan ethnobotanical database, a botanical monograph, and musical transcriptions. The PIs of the project are Florian Lionnet and Tom Güldemann. Researchers on the team are Florian Lionnet (linguistic documentation), Sandrine Loncke (ethnomusicology), Rémadji Hoïnathy (anthropology), and Ngomdé Djasnabaye (ethnobotany).

Citation

Florian Lionnet, Remadji Hoinathy, and Sandrine Loncke. (2010 - 2020). Collection "Laal". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/93472197-4462-489c-8cee-0d9a3587f3e5. (Accessed 2023-05-29)

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