A preliminary linguistic survey of the Tagoi language, Nuba Mountains, Sudan
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
The Tagoi language is spoken by 13,000 people (SIL 1982) in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan. Tagoi was classified by Greenberg (1966) as a Kordofanian language. Its genetic status as a Kordofanian language has been questioned by Dimmendaal (2009), although this author does accept the affiliation of Tagoi and the cluster it belongs to, Rashad, to the Niger-Congo phylum. This study will provide facts about the sociolinguistic situation and the degree of language endangerment, the phonology, and the noun and verb morphology of the Tagoi language. It will constitute the basis for a more comprehensive project and build local competence in language documentation.
Primary investigator: Suzan Alamin Mubarak Alamin
Project Details
Location: Sudan, Northern Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Khartoum
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £5,483.00
Commencement Date: 01/2007
Project Status: Completed
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