Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2001S16 and ISBN 1-58563-216-3. Please see below for information regarding its collection, processing, and contents.
The data contains tone paradigms of the language Ngomba, a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by some 63,000 people in the Western Province of Cameroon. Ngomba's tone system is undescribed, but it has many similarities with the closely related Yémba language (also known as Bamileke Dschang).
There are 23 paradigm pages in html format. Each page lists 32 utterances, varying across subject, verb, and object. Each utterance has a link to a recording in .wav format. Phonetic and tonological transcriptions have been done for every utterance.
Please see the paradigm index for a listing of the paradigm pages with links to each page.
There is also a set of raw sound files, each one of which contains the complete recording of one of the tenses. For each paradigm recording there are also laryngograph recordings and label files included.
Please see the rawdata index for a listing of the raw files.
Please see the doc directory for the documentation files.
Please see the file.tbl for a complete list of files.
Speaker Information:
Joseph Petiogwe was born in 1959 in Bamenjinda, and lived in the language area until twenty years of age, when he moved to Yaoundé.
References:
| Ngouagna, Jean Pierre (1988). Esquisse phonologique du Ngomba, Department of African Languages and Linguistics, University of Yaoundé |
| Satre, Scott A (1997). Phonological sketch of Ngomba, SIL, B.P. 1299, Yaoundé. |
|
Watters, John R. and Jacqueline Leroy (1989),
Southern Bantoid,
In Bendor-Samuel, John (ed) The Niger-Congo Languages Lanham, MD: University Press of America, pp 430-49. |
Recorded:
June 21, 1997, Recording Studio of SIL Cameroon, Yaoundé
Digitized, Labelled and Segmented:
1997-1998 Phonetics Laboratory, University of Edinburgh
Transcribed and Annotated:
1998-2001 LDC, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsorship:
| SIL Cameroon |
| Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Grant R000235540 |
| National Science Foundation (US) Grant 9983258 |
| Linguistic Data Consortium |
Additional information, updates and bug fixes may be available in the LDC catalog entry for this corpus LDC2001S16.
Steven Bird
<sb@ldc.upenn.edu>
University of Pennsylvania
John Bell
<jmbell@ldc.upenn.edu>
University of Pennsylvania
© 2001 Steven Bird and John Bell.