University of Ottawa, 2021. — 399 p. This thesis presents a detailed description and analysis of several topics in the grammar of Bago, a Gur language spoken in the central-eastern region of Togo. It covers areas in the phonology, syntax, and semantics of the language. The first chapter provides background information about the history and culture of the Bago people prior to...
University of British Columbia, 2023. — 311 p. Dagaare is a Mabia/Gur language spoken in northwestern Ghana and parts of Burkina Faso. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of morphophonological patterns such as vowel harmony, tone alternation, as well as aspectual and nominal inflection using theoretic models such as Optimality Theory and...
University of Manchester, 2013. — 333 p. This thesis provides a detailed study of the semantics, grammar, and pragmatics of positional verbs from a typological perspective in Gurenɛ, a Gur (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Northern Ghana. The study documents and describes Gurenɛ positional verbs in detail focusing on a set of over thirty contrastive positional verbs using a...
University of Ghana, 2018. — 198 p. This thesis investigates “serial verb constructions” in Gurene, a Gur language spoken in the nortern part of Ghana. It examines the defining properties of SVCs, the semantic and the syntactic classification of SVCs in Gurene, using the prototype theory framework. The fundamental principles of the theory which include “prototypicality,”...
University of British Columbia, 1974. — 161 p. This thesis presents a linguistic description of Gurma nouns and verbs based on the Fada N'Gurma dialect. The first chapter introduces the Gurmas to the reader and tells about the first writings in and about their language. Chapter two presents a phonetic and phonemic analysis of the language. Chapter three defines the noun,...
University of North Dakota, 2004. — 140 p. This thesis is an application of Knud Lambrecht’s 1994 work, Information structure and sentence form, to Byali, a Gur language of northwestern Benin (West Africa). In particular, it concerns an analysis of how the different focus structures are marked in Byali, according to Lambrecht’s framework. Given that this is an application of a...
Galda Verlag, 2020. — 416 p. The Handbook of Mabia languages is a collection of evaluated papers from two workshops held in 2017. These workshops offered scholars in various research domains of the Mabia languages opportunities to critically examine the term ‘Gur’ in comparison with a rather more appropriate and authentic name, Mabia. Thus, this Handbook is partly necessitated...
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 64 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 165). Dàgáárè is a Mabia language of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family of Africa. It is spoken mainly in northwestern Ghana by about 1.5 million people. This grammatical sketch, based on the Central Dialect spoken around Jirapa, is divided into three chapters of phonology, morphology and syntax....
CSLI Publications, 1997. — 159 p. — (Stanford monographs in African languages). This book grew out of Dagaare field methods courses at the University of Trondheim, Norway and at Stanford University. The monograph covers basic aspects of the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Dagaare, such as vowel harmony, tone, the noun class system, serial verbs and other complex...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xvi, 472 p. — (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 2). — ISBN: 978-3-944675-91-6. This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future...
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 2005. — 59 p. — (Collected language notes 26). The Dagaare language is the major language of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Other Ianguages are spoken in the Region, principally Sisalla and Chakale, but they are spoken by iär fewer people, especially Chakale which seems to be disappearing. Gonja is (or was) also spoken in a...
Author/Publisher: SIL - Burkina Faso
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 117
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L'Harmattan, 2007. — 156 p. — (Parlons).
Cet ouvrage propose de faire découvrir un peuple: les Lobis, d'initier à une langue africaine: le lobiri, une des multiples langues minoritaires du Burkina Faso, et d'établir un dialogue des cultures en prenant comme matrice la culture lobi. La démarche est fondée sur la méthode de "l'expérience de l'apprentissage d'une langue...
Leiden University, 2011. — 350 p. This book is a first comparative study of the Nuni dialects. Nuni is a Gurunsi-Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso. This dialectological study is based on new first hand lexical and sentential data which are presented in the book. The lexical dialectological study shows that the dialect of Yatini (Silly) is closest to all the other dialects and...
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1979. — 93 p. — (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale 37). langues ici étudiées constituent une fraction importante de l'ensemble traditionnellement appelé "voltaïque" ou "gur" (Haute-Volta, Mali oriental, nord de la Côte d'Ivoire, du Ghana, du Togo et du Dahomey). Elles ont été précédemment réparties en deux groupes...
SELAF, 1969. — 180 p. The Grũsi or Gurunsi languages, also known as the East Mabia languages, are a group of Gur languages, comprising about 20 languages spoken by the Gurunsi peoples. The Grũsi languages are spoken in northern Ghana, adjacent areas of Burkina Faso and Togo. The largest language in the Grusi group is Kabiye, a language spoken by approximately 1.2 million people...
SELAF, 1975. — 325 p. Les langues oti–volta forment un sous-groupe des langues Gur, comprenant environ 30 langues du nord du Ghana, du Bénin et du Burkina Faso parlées par douze millions de personnes. La langue la plus parlée est le mòoré, la langue nationale du Burkina Faso, parlée par cinq millions de personnes, y compris dans le nord du Togo et du Ghana (dialecte Yanga). Les...
SIL International, 2012. — 144 p. This thesis describes the tonal system of verbs in Mbelime (ISO 639-3: mql), a Niger-Congo: Gur language spoken in northwestern Benin (Lewis 2009) and provides an analysis of this tonal system in Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonological theory. Furthermore, the data is used to evaluate current theories of tone features, concluding...
Peace Corps. — iii, 107 p. Год выпуска не указан. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safety and security.This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your...
Eastern Michigan University, 2006. — 218 p.
This work provides the first linguistic description of Isaalo (Western Sisaala [SSL]), a language spoken by less than 10,000 people in and around Lambussie, in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It presents a detailed phonological description and includes an orthography proposal for this previously unwritten language. Included is also...
University of Ghana, 2018. — 136 p. This study examines the morpho-syntactic properties of the noun phrase in Sɩsaalɩ, a Gur language spoken in Ghana, with emphasis on the internal components of the noun phrase and how these elements are distributed in the phrase. The study examines the elements of both the simple and complex noun phrases. It shows that the Sɩsaalɩ noun phrase...
SIL Electronic Working Papers, 2008. — 40 p. This study is primarily concerned with the phonology of the Nateni language, spoken in the north of Benin in West Africa. It has been the basis for further work in the language and has especially contributed to its orthography design. The description was conducted in terms of segmental phonology and does not include a study of the...
Vienna, August 4, 2016. — 10 p. (in English and Dagaare language) Нгуги ва Тхионго. Настоящая революция (на англ. и дагари яз.) Дагари распространён на юге Буркина-Фасо и севере Ганы. Относится к западной подгруппе оти-вольтийской группы северной подветви центральной ветви языков гур нигеро-конголезской языковой семьи. Dagaare is one of the Gur language spoken by the Dagaaba...
[Dallas, Texas, USA]: SIL International, 2018. — x + 201 p. — (SIL eBook 69). — ISSN: 1934-2470. Le nawdm est la langue des Nawdba (singulier: Nawda). Les Nawdba sont installés dans le nord du Togo, dans la Préfecture de Doufelgou. De là, un grand nombre a émigré vers le centre et le sud du Togo et aussi vers le Ghana. Le nawdm est une langue voltaïque (ou gur), classée par...
Peace Corps. — iv, 108 pages. Год публикации не указан. This short course is a language guide to Kabiye language spoken in the Pacific island of Togo. The course includes 13 lessons which cover the following: Greetings Introduce oneself and someone else Present one's family Buying essential items Talk about food habits of the host country Invite someone, accept or decline an...
Peace Corps. — iii, 196 pp. Дата публикации не указана. This Peace Corps Konkomba course includes 13 lessons: Greetings Introduce oneself and someone else Introduce one's family Buying essential items Talk about food habits of the host country Invite someone, accept or decline an invitation Talk about daily activities Ask for and give direction and time Talk about...
Peace Corps Togo, 2010. — iii, 106 pages. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technical, health, safety and security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your community...
SIL International, 2022. — 327 p. The general subject of this work is the segmental phonology and tonology of Dye [ɟyɛ̄], a Gurma (Niger-Congo, Gur) language spoken in the northern regions of Togo and Benin. It is more commonly known as Gangam [gng] or Ngangam and is listed as Ngangam in the Ethnologue. The manner in which Dye codifies its verbs is unique in the literature....
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2005. — 333 p. (Gur Monographs, 6). En entreprenant une étude comparative historique appliquée aux langues du groupe oriental (le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental), je n’ai pas la prétention de procéder à une nouvelle classification, ni de 'vérifier' pour affirmer ou infirmer la parenté de ce groupe de langues établie par Manessy; le choix d'un tel thème a plutôt...
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2005. — 336 p.
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Peace Corps Books, 1980. — 245 p. This handbook contains 20 lessons on Kabiye phonology and grammar and is intended particularly for Peace Corps volunteers in Togo. Each lesson contains explanations in English, vocabulary, and oral and written exercises. A number of pen-and-ink drawings of cultural interest illustrate the lessons. An answer key to the written exercises and a...
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