kke-c_2013-11-28_FK_narr Description and documentation of the Kakabe language

Foula Keita tells about the history of Kakabe people from the end of 19th century, he is sitting in behind his own house in Mamou The project aims to produce a representative corpus of annotated texts (audio and video), a reference grammar and two dictionaries (Kakabe-English and Kakabe-French). It will also involve the development of written standards for the language, and the preparation of texts that will be made accessible to the community. The project will be conducted within the framework of my PhD programme in Field Linguistics. Kakabe Born in the village Popodara, Gongoret subprefecture, at the time of the recording lives in Mamou and works as general secretary at Mamou prefecture