Historical information: In the summer of 2015, UC Berkeley graduate students Nicholas Rolle and Geoff Bacon worked with the sizeable CiShingini population living in the city of Ilorin, Nigeria (living outside of their traditional villages). CiShingini (ISO 639-3: asg) is a Kainji language, part of the Benue-Congo family within the Niger-Congo phylum. The language is indigenously spoken in scattered villages throughout the middle Western regions of Nigeria, near Lake Kainji. CiShingini is also known as Agwara Kambari or simply Kambari. The language is situated between the two largest language areas in Nigeria, with the Hausa to the north and the Yoruba to the south. In our experience, CiShingini speakers are completely fluent in Hausa but as a whole do not speak any Yoruba, even if they are Christian. Use of English varies. Serious attempts to describe CiShingini have been undertaken previously by John and Janie Stark. It was the stated goal of our fieldwork to build on the materials they already collected in three primary domains: lexical and grammatical tone (which had very little description in previous publications), quantification, and syntax. This was mostly done through elicitation in order to control for all relevant variables. The contact language for recording sessions was English (not Hausa or Pidgin). Nicholas Rolle worked with the CiShingini for under a month, while Geoff Bacon worked with them for 1 1/2 months. Our main consultants whom we worked with were Ishaya Musa, Mark Sunday, Joshua Zaure, and Seth Ango Liatu, all first language speakers of CiShingini who would exclusively use CiShingini in daily communication. We would like to thank these consultants for sharing their language, and acknowledge funding from a Rocca Pre-dissertation Fellowship from the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley.
Scope and content: Audio files, field notes, metadata spreadsheets, tone database
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Seth Ango Liatu, Ishaya Musa, Mark Sunday, Joshua Zaure, Geoff Bacon, and Nicholas Rolle. CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials, 2015-05, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23N21JC.
Description: Mark and Dima’s living room, KWASU compound, Ilorin, Nigeria 4 syllable words, [ɨ] vs. [ə]; used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone, and external shotgun type mic
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (4 syllable words, Phonology), 2015-05.028, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23405.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah and in his living room, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria 4 syllable words, u- words, past tense used tascam recorder with 2 at803 clip microphones, but outside for most of it
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (4 syllable words, Phonology, Past tense), 2015-05.029, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23406.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation Concentrated on noun phrases, tone on verbs in basic tense aspect used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Basic Clauses), 2015-05.021, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23398.
Description: Mark and Dima’s living room, KWASU compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Concentrated on 4 syllable tones, tone in NPs, order of quantifiers used tascam recorder with 2 at803 clip microphones
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Basic clauses, subjects, vocab), 2015-05.022, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23399.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from color stimulus kit Concentrated on color used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Color), 2015-05.034, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23411.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from color stimulus kit Concentrated on color used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Color), 2015-05.035, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23412.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Kin and color stimulus kits Concentrated on kin, color used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Color), 2015-05.031, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23408.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General Elicitation), 2015-05.017, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23394.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone , but outside
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General Elicitation), 2015-05.026, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23403.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General Elicitation), 2015-05.019, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23396.
Description: Mark and Dima’s living room, KWASU compound, Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation Concentrated on future tense, tone on gerundives ku-, ideophones used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone, and external shotgun type mic
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General elicitation), 2015-05.030, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23407.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah and in his living room, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation Concentrated on past tense and tone, pronouns, used tascam recorder with 2 at803 clip microphones, but outside for most of it
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General elicitation), 2015-05.027, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23404.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria General elicitation used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (General), 2015-05.015, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23392.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Kin and color stimulus kits Topic : Kin, color used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Kin, color), 2015-05.032, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23409.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Stark's Agwara Dictionary Concentrated on mass/count used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/Count), 2015-05.040, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23417.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Stark's Agwara Dictionary Concentrated on mass/count used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/Count), 2015-05.038, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23415.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Stark's Agwara Dictionary Concentrated on mass/count, verbs of desire used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/Count), 2015-05.036, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23413.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Stark's Agwara Dictionary Concentrated on mass/count, stories used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/Count, stories), 2015-05.042, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23419.
Description: On Ishaya’s verandah, UMCA Headquarter’s compound, Ilorin, Nigeria Elicited from Stark's Agwara Dictionary Concentrated on mass/count, ciga, verbs of desire used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/count), 2015-05.033, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23410.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/count), 2015-05.037, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23414.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/count), 2015-05.039, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23416.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/count), 2015-05.041, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23418.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Mass/count, stories), 2015-05.043, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23420.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone Noun phrases
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Noun Phrases), 2015-05.010, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23387.
Description: Private office at UMCA Headquarters (some background noise from street, some echo), Ilorin, Nigeria Concentrated on noun phrases used tascam recorder with at803 clip microphone
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elicitation with CiShingini Speaker (Noun phrases), 2015-05.012, in "CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23389.
We acknowledge with respect the Ohlone people on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded land we work and whose historical relationships with that land continue to this day.