Marense language materials (Songhay family, Mali)

lexical spreadsheet, pdf of additional notes, and audio recordings. The pdf of additional notes is organized around subsections of the chapter I am writing on "eastern Songhay", part of a book co-authored by Lameen Souag on the Songhay language family. Marense was previously known to Songhay specialists only from a paper by Robert Nicolai on "Songhay central," comparing two Marense dialects with the Songhay of Hombori and that of Tinié village. Nicolai's paper was almost entirely about vocalic and consonantal systems and tonal distinctions and had essentially no material on morphosyntax. This work also includes a spreadsheet with the Marense words gleaned from Nicolai's paper. I note that Nicolai's tapes for this and many other Songhay varieties are being processed for archiving at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The recordings have not been transcribed and I have no plans to transcribe them. They should be partially intelligible to speakers of eastern Songhay languages. The topics of the individual audio files are: 0930 agriculture 1 0931 marriage 0932 life in the old days 0933 education of children 0934 travels 0935 taxes 0936 hunting 0937 circumcision 0938 agriculture 2 (crop pests) 0939 indigo dye-ing 0940 riddles