A Grammar of Bangime
Author | : Jeffrey Heath |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110765217 |
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Spoken only in a cul-de-sac valley in Dogon country in east-central Mali, Bangime is the most enigmatic language isolate in the whole of interior West Africa. It is apparently a Basque-like survival of a formerly widespread language family, now boxed into this small valley by the expansion of Niger-Congo languages (Dogon, Bozo, Mande) on all sides. This book brings out the full glory of its grammar, especially its 3-level tone system.