Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
Description
Purpose:
The purpose of the project has been to document and linguistically analyse the Central African language Mpiemo by means of varying subprojects.
Language
English
French
Swedish
Mpiemo
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and LiteraturesData contains personal data
No
Population
Mpiemo
Time period(s) investigated
1998–2008
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Central African Republic
Geographic description: Nola, southwestern Central African Republic.
Research area
Language and linguistics
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
General Language Studies and Linguistics, Specific Languages
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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.
Libris
Swepub
Institutional Repository
ISBN:
978-3-89645-281-8
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.
Swepub
Institutional Repository
ISSN:
1650-2019
Thornell, C. ; Bessamia, R. ; Metekouli, Z. (2005). Des plantes à létat sauvage chez le people mpiemo: leurs noms et leurs usages. Göteborg: Göteborg University.
Libris
ISSN:
1404-8523
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.
Libris
Swepub
Institutional Repository
ISBN:
91-630-9647-1
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.
Libris
Swepub
Institutional Repository
ISSN:
0349-1021
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Trilingual word list Mpiemo-French-English containing roughly 1,900 words and grammatical information like word class and noun class. The word list is an updated and extended version of the unpublished lists put together by Laurent Wanabetsina, Keith Beavon and Nkali Lazaro Mbaro (1986) and Lydia Lundström (197?). For the updates a number of native Mpiemo speakers, among others Abel Mabessimo and Zacharie Metekouli, have been consulted. They spoke the Mpiakoumbo and Kwabili dialects. The words i
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
Keywords
minority languages, folklore, translation, linguistics, linguistic analysis, bantu languages, mpiemo, a86c, endangered languages, word list
Time period(s) investigated
1999–2008
Description
The phonological system of the Bantu language Mpiemo (A86c) features a combination of nasals and stops both word-initially and medially. These nasals are phonetically more or less opaque. The question is whether these nasals should be interpreted as phonemes of their own or as a prenasalisation of the following stop. The recordings in this dataset form the basis of (acoustic) phonetic studies of this question. The study also takes into account the morphological function of the nasal and the syll
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Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
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minority languages, folklore, linguistics, linguistic analysis, bantu languages, mpiemo, a86c, fonemic system, minimal pairs, sound system, nasals, prenasals
Time period(s) investigated
1998–2000
Description
The dataset contains soud recordings of several texts. Matthew chapter 8 is read by a Mpiemo speaker (Mathurin Mpatoumbo). There are also PDF files of the text which follow the translation made by Gilbert Ankouma, Joseph Apang and Lydia Lundström (1978).
The fable Mpi na kubɔ (The dog and the hen) was written down by a native speaker of Mpiemo (Jean-Charles Ankouma) and was then edited together with him and another person (Mathurin Mpatoumbo). The fable was then recorded. Both a sound recording
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Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
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Time period(s) investigated
1998–1999
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The dataset contains recordings of elicitation sessions that deal with vowel quality, vowel quantity and tones.Version 1.0
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Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
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bantu languages, mpiemo, a86c, fonemic system, minimal pairs, sound system
Time period(s) investigated
1999–1999
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The dataset contains recordings of elicitation sessions that deal with stops and implosives.Version 1.0
https://doi.org/10.5878/001682
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Christina Thornell - University of Gothenburg, Department of Languages and Literatures
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bantu languages, mpiemo, a86c, fonemic system, minimal pairs, sound system
Time period(s) investigated
1999–1999