History of Bandial Language/People BAN221215AH1a Investigating the unexplored side of multilingualism

Migration of Bandial from origin at Seleky and etymology of the name Bandial The Crossroads project is supported by a Leverhulme Trust Leverhulme Research Leadership Award totalling nearly £1million. PI Professor Friederike Lüpke and a team of postdoctoral researchers, Phd students, transcribers, consultants, and external advisors is a five year project running from 2014 to the end of 2018. It investigates multilingualism and language contact between three languages spoken at the “crossroads” – a group of neighbouring villages in the Casamance area of Senegal, West Africa. The languages are Baïnounk Gubëeher, Joola Kujireray and Joola Banjal. Researchers are utilising a fourth language, Baïnounk Gujaher, as a control language. The results of the project will reveal through a social network study in which areas the languages influence each other least and most in structure, lexicon and speech-accompanying gesture. We also investigate the ideologies that underlie the complex multilingualism at the Crossroads. Jóola Bandial, French