Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon

Introduction

Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003L01 and ISBN 1-58563-255-4.

The data contains a lexicon of the language Yémba (Bamileke Dschang), a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by 300,000+ people in Southwestern Cameroon.

Data

There are two sets of pages in HTML format: one set is 28 pages, the other is 105. In the first set, one page lists every word in the lexicon that begins with a given letter (or letter combination). In the second set, one page lists approximately 25 entries, unless there are fewer than 25 entries beginning with a given letter. The second set is more convenient for use on slower machines.

Each entry under a headword has links to two or more sound files. Two speakers were recorded; a given entry generally contains links to utterances of the headword by both speakers, as well as a laryngograph recording of the headword by the second speaker. Nouns may also have links to pronunciations of the plurals, and verbs may have links to pronunciations of the imperative and infinitive forms. These ancillary forms will in general also have laryngograph recordings.

Recorded: May 1997, Dschang, recording studio of SIL Cameroon, Yaoundé

Digitized, Labelled and Segmented: 1997-1998 Phonetics Laboratory, University of Edinburgh

Annotated: 1998-2002 LDC, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsorship:

SIL Cameroon

Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Grant R000235540

National Science Foundation (US) Grant 9983258

National Science Foundation (US) TalkBank Project Grant BCS-998009, KDI, SBE

Linguistic Data Consortium

Updates

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Due to a problem with the way a number of images are rendered by the Windows operating system, the release is recommended to be viewed in the Unix operating system, which displays the icons correctly.

Note

The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number 9983258, and therefore free of charge to qualified researchers; a $30 shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are distributed, additional copies will be available under the normal terms and costs.

Portions © 2003 Steven Bird, © 2003 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania