rgriscom/Open-Corpus-of-Asimjeeg-Datooga

This repository consists of an open access corpus of recordings of the Asimjeeg Datooga language of Tanzania. # Open-Corpus-of-Asimjeeg-Datooga Version: 0.01 Last Updated: 2019-04-28 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. To view a copy of the license, visit creativecommons.org ## CONTENTS: 1. Overview 1.1 General Description 1.2 Language Description 1.3 Organization of the Corpus 1.4 Development of the Corpus 1.5 How to Download the Corpus 1.6 How to Use the Corpus 1.7 Restrictions on use of the corpus / Creative Commons License 2. Contact Information ## Section 1: OVERVIEW ### 1.1 General Description The Open Corpus of Asmjeeg Datooga is an annotated audio-visual corpus of recordings of the Asmjeeg (Isimjeeg) variety of the Datooga language, spoken in northern Tanzania. This corpus consists of audio and video recordings with time-aligned text data for use with the ELAN software developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. For more information about ELAN, please visit the following website: tla.mpi.nl It may also be useful to install the Praat acoustic analysis software: fon.hum.uva.nl ### 1.2 Language Description Asmjeeg Datooga is a language variety of the Southern Nilotic family. All of the varieties of Datooga are spoken exclusively in Tanzania, whereas most of the other Southern Nilotic languages are spoken in Kenya (the one exception being Akie, which is spoken by hunter gatherers in Tanzania). Many of the Datooga varieties are closely related, and are mutually intelligible. Asmjeeg Datooga, also referred to as Isimjeega, is often not easily understood by speakers of other varieties of Datooga, although the speakers of Asmjeeg claim they can understand the other varieties. Asmjeeg Datooga has not been extensively studied and appears to exhibit features that have not been attributed to the other Datooga varieties. ### 1.3 Organization of the Corpus Th …