Historical information:Nafaanra is a Senufo language spoken in western Ghana and Eastern Cote d'Ivoire by approximately 61,000 speakers. The majority of other Senufo languages are spoken in northern Cote d'Ivoire, southern Mali, southwestern Burkina Faso with Nafaanra being a geographic isolate. Speakers of Nafaanra are divided across the Ghana Cote d'Ivoire boarder. Data for this corpus are collected in Ghana in the Brong Afro Region in the village of Banda Ahenkro. The population in Banda Ahenkro and the surrounding areas is multilingual speaking either Nafaanra or Ligbi along with Twi (Akan) and English. Twi is the lingua franca of the area and English is used in education and government. This fieldwork is a part of an ongoing fieldwork conducted by Karee Garvin through funding from the Oswalt foundation. Data was collected in the summers of 2017 and 2018.
Scope and content:This collection consists of Nafaanra materials collected by Karee Garvin from June 2017 through August 2018 in Banda Ahenkro, Ghana. Materials include sound recordings, field notes. Each file bundle contains either a grammatical elicitation, lexical elicitation, narratives, or a phonetic word list data. The content of individual elicitation sessions is described in the Description field. The respective contents of the field notes from each file bundle can also be found in the continuous notebook file, Field Notes: 2017-11.002.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Job Kwabena Ababio, James Anane, Sampson Kwasi Attah, Charles Munufie, and Karee Garvin. Nafaanra Documentation Project, 2017-11, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V98672.
Description:Total field notes from summer 2017 field trip: The pdfs in this bundle also exist as discrete pdfs related to each of the bundles in this collection; however, this bundle provides the full pdf in a single location and provides chronological insight into the composition of the field notes.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Field Notes, 2017-11.002, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24835.
Item number: 2017-11.022
Date: 04 Jul 2017
Relations to this item:2017-11.002 relates to this Item
Description:Grammatical elicitation focusing on adjectival verbs; This file bundle contains audio recordings and a subsection of the Field Notes relevant to this file bundle from the file bundle 2017-11.002, as well as a typed version of the latter.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grammatical Elicitation: Adjectival Verbs, 2017-11.022, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24855.
Description:Narrative elicitation with multiple stories of consultants life including one about how he became involved in the literacy project and another about yam farming
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Narrative Elicitation: Literacy Project and Yams, 2017-11.024, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24857.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Narrative Elicitation: Lost Keys, 2017-11.023, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24856.
Description:Narrative elicitation in Nafaanra from community members: one about how a widow lost her husband and her life since; another about how a man found religion and became a pastor
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Narrative Elicitation: Stories from Community Members, 2017-11.026, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24859.
Description:Phonetic elicitation collecting tokens for acoustic analysis in word list format; Audio from multiple consultant; Consultants jka, cxm, and jxm recorded lists using microphone and recorder inside; ska was recorded using a laptop and laptop microphone in a remote area due to recorder malfunctions
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Phonetic Elicitation, 2017-11.032, in "Nafaanra Documentation Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24865.
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