The Documentation of Gujjolaay Eegimaa an Atlantic-BAK Joola Language

Serge Sagna, University of Manchester, UK

Project Details:

Individual Postgraduate Fellowship. Duration: 2008-2010. £79,398

Project Summary:

This documentation of Gújjolaay Eegimaa (an Atlantic language of Southern Senegal) aims at providing a representative digital corpus of audio and video data of 30 hours transcribed, annotated and translated, and a dictionary of 4000 words. It will focus on vanishing linguistic and cultural aspects, such as mourning, rice growing etc., which are central to the religion and the way of life of the Gújjolaay Eegimaa and reflected in linguistic structure, e.g. in the verbal classification system. This documentation will provide the material for linguistic and possibly interdisciplinary research, and also tools for a larger project of revitalisation of the language.