team members Documenting cultural events of cangin

Photos of the team members The project’s aim is to document cultural events in Cangin, a dialect of Noon (ISO 639-3:snf), whose population is estimated at 9000. Noon is spoken in the Thiès area, a region in the west of Senegal (14°48'0""N / 16°56'0""W). Their culture is very different from that of surrounding groups. This culture is being lost, and the project focuses on documenting ceremonial performances and cultural knowledge in order to preserve a record of a unique culture. The corpus will further contribute to the speech communities’ efforts to maintain and strengthen their language and culture. He is the depositor and a PhD researcher in Linguistics. Khadim is our main informant. He is a singer and he plays the guitar. He conducted all the interviews. Lamine is a member of the team. He is a recorder and a video editor. He is a teammember. He is an annotator and works on data collection he collects data and works in translation