Elicitation lexicon and grammar: yeepí 'mourning (ceremony)' AMB2011-12-31_001-011

In this session, vocabulary items and example sentences from the semantic field of yeepí 'mourning (ceremony)' were recorded from Ambaye Tsedeke. In addition, some miscellaneous vocabulary items and examples were recorded. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France. Ambaye was trained as a teacher and worked at different schools in the Basketo Special Woreda. At the time of the Baskeet documentation project he was one of the very free Baskeet native speakers who were fluent in English. In his freetime he worked as an assistant in the documentation project, carried out interviews, assisted in the transcription and translation and was a consultant in grammar and lexicon elicitation sessions.