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1. Description 1.1 Name of Society, Language, and Language Family: Loma, Loma, Niger-Congo (1) Alternate Names for the Loma Incl
1. Description 1.1 Name of society, language, and language family: Loma, Loma, Niger-Congo (1) Alternate names for the Loma include “Buzi,” “Busy,” “Bouze,” Loghoma, Looma, and Lorma, although “Buzi” is considered an offensive name (1). The Loma language has many dialects, including Gizima, Wubomei, Ziema, Bunde, and Buluyiema (1). The Loma writing system is a syllabary consisting of 185 syllables, some of which have multiple versions (3). 1.2 ISO Code: 639-3: lom 1.3 Location: The Loma can be found mainly in Lofa county in northwestern Liberia (1), at about 8 degrees latitude and -10 degrees longitude (2). The area in which most Loma live is referred to as Wubomai, after Fala Wubo, who is considered to be the founder of the Loma tribe. 1.4 Brief History: The Loma tribe is said to have been founded around the 14th century A.D. by a man named Fala Wubo, who was the son of a Mali prince that had migrated after a power struggle. Fala Wubo himself also migrated due to rumors of him being the son of a slave mother, and thus not a true heir to his father’s properties. After discovering what would eventually become Wubomai and finding it already inhabited by a people known as the Wono, Fala Wubo led his men into years of fighting with the Wono that would eventually result in his people’s victory and settlement in that region. For many years, the area was divided into autonomously independent towns and villages, all with their own chief, which frequently fought amongst each other. -
Person Marking in South-West Mande Languages: a Tentative Reconstruction1
Mandenkan No. 46, 2010, pp. 3-48 Person Marking in South-West Mande Languages: 1 a Tentative Reconstruction Kirill Babaev Institute of Linguistics for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow The article presents a brief comparative analysis of systems of person marking in the six languages of the South-Western group of the Mande family and a tentative reconstruction of the proto- language person markers. The paper includes data from the newly- discovered Zialo language recorded in 2010 by the Russian linguistic expedition to West Africa. Keywords: personal pronouns, person marking, comparative analysis, reconstruction, Mande languages, Niger-Congo languages 0. Introduction The general idea of the present paper is to conduct an analysis of the systems of person marking in the South-Western Mande (further referred to as SWM) languages and to deliver a tentative reconstruction of the original Proto-SWM system. So far, no attempt of such a reconstruction has been published. The area populated by speakers of SWM languages lies in the savanna and rainforest zones of West Africa. The group encompasses the following languages: 1. Bandi (French bandi) is spoken by about 100 thousand people (2001) in Lofa county in the northern part of Liberia. Bandi is rather homogeneous: the only variety with significant phonological peculiarities is the dialect of Yawiazu. 2. Kpelle (or Kpese, French guerzé) is in use by nearly 800 thousand speakers equally distributed between Guinea (N’Zérékoré province) and northern Liberia. There are about a dozen of dialects of Kpelle that vary greatly: the common distinction is drawn between the Guinean and Liberian dialect clusters. -
Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative Alignment in West Africa: the Case of Southwestern Mande Valentin Vydrin
Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande Valentin Vydrin To cite this version: Valentin Vydrin. Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande. Studies in Language, John Benjamins Publishing, 2011, 35 (2), pp.409-443. halshs-00717962 HAL Id: halshs-00717962 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00717962 Submitted on 14 Jul 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Ergative/Absolutive and Active/Stative alignment in West Africa: The case of Southwestern Mande Valentin Vydrin INALCO/CNRS-LLACAN, Paris Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian Academy of Sciences), St. Petersburg [email protected] Valentin Vydrin Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography 3, University Embankment St. Petersburg 199 034 Russia 1 Abstract It is usually believed that non-accusative alignment systems are very rare in Africa. A thorough study of the verbal systems of the Southwestern Mande languages (Looma, Mende, Kpelle) has shown that this group is an exception. The Ergative/Absolutive types of argument coding and semantic alignment are observed in these languages mainly in the personal marking on the verbs. -
Liberian Studies ,Journal
NUMBER 2 1970-1971 VOLUME III LIBERIAN STUDIES ,JOURNAL .- -'V .` p. N ' :s.' " EY ' L-lti?!?'.rì%. i 1;ìn..Ah 4 a. Edited by: David M. Foley, Svend E. Holsoe, University of Georgia University of Delaware OF DELAWARE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED AT THE DEPARTMENT PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Cover photograph: Clay bowl. Collected in 1961 from the potter, a Mandingo female, at Vamata, Deigbo chiefdom. 4 1/2" high, 6" wide. Svend E. Holsoe Collection. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor VOLUME III 1970 -1971 NUMBER 1 LIBERIAN STUDIES JOURNAL EDITED BY Svend E. Holsoe David M. Foley University of Delaware University of Georgia EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Igolima T. D. Amachree Western Illinois University J. Bernard Blamo Mary Antoinette Brown College of Liberal & Fine Arts William V. S. Tubman Teachers College University of Liberia University of Liberia George E. Brooks, Jr. Warren L. d'Azevedo Indiana University University of Nevada David Dalby Bohumil Holas School of Oriental and African Studies Centre des Science Humaines University of London Republique de Côte d'Ivoire James L. Gibbs, Jr. J. Gus Liebenow Stanford University Indiana University Bai T. Moore Department of Information and Cultural Affairs Republic of Liberia i Published at the Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor CONTENTS page LIBERIAN PREHISTORY, by John H. Atherton 83 EARLY IRON SMELTING AMONG THE NORTHERN KPELLE, by Willi Schulze 113 SOME PROPOSALS FOR LIBERIAN ARCHEOLOGY, Frederick D. -
Expanding the Unicode Repertoire: Un-Encoded Scripts of Africa and Asia
Expanding the Unicode Repertoire Unencoded Scripts of Africa and Asia Deborah Anderson, SEI, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley Anshuman Pandey, Department of History, University of Michigan IUC 38 • November 5, 2014 Already Encoded Scripts (12) “Modern” use (8) Bamum/Bamum Supplement Historic use (3) Bassa Vah Egyptian Hieroglyphs Ethiopic/Ethiopic Supplement and Meroitic Cursive Extensions Meroitic Hieroglyphs Mende Kikakui Liturgical use (1) N’Ko Coptic Osmanya Note: Scripts in bold italic had assistance from Tifiangh SEI Vai Bassa Vah (Unicode 7.0) Scripts of Africa Unencoded scripts (historical) – possible candidates for encoding Additions to Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Ptolemaic) – over 7K characters Hieratic? Demotic? Source: Chicago Demotic Dictionary Numidian? Unencoded scripts (modern or near- modern) – good candidates (13) Adlam * (1978) Mwangwego (1979) Bagam (1910) Nwagu Aneke Igbo (1960s) Beria (1980s) Oberi Okaime (1927) Bete (1956) Borama (Gadabuursi) (1933) Garay (Wolof) (1961) * Approved by UTC Hausa Raina Kama (1990s) Kaddare (1952) Kpelle (1930s) Loma (1930s) Mandombe (1978) Unencoded scripts – not currently good candidates for encoding (21) Aka Umuagbara Igbo (1993) Masaba (1930) Aladura Holy alphabet (1927) Ndebe Igbo (2009) Bassa (1836) New Nubian (2005) Esan oracle rainbow (1996) Nubian Kenzi (1993) Fula (2 scripts) (1958/1963) Oromo (1956) Hausa (2 scripts) (1970/1998) Soni (2001) Kii (2006) Wolof Saalliw wi (2002) Kru alphabet (1972) Yoruba FaYe (2007) Luo (2 scripts) -
Michael Mcgovern
1 The Political Economy of Predation and Intergenerational Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast Mike McGovern Yale University Quand on dit qu’il y a guerre tribale dans un pays, ça signifie que des bandits de grand chemin se sont partagé le pays. Ils se sont partagé la richesse; ils se sont partagé le territoire; ils se sont partagé les hommes. Ils se sont partagé tout et tout et le monde entier les laisse faire. Tout le monde les laisse tuer librement les innocents les enfants et les femmes. Et ce n’est pas tout! Le plus marrant, chacun defend avec l’energie du désespoir son gain et, en même temps, chacun veut agrandir son domaine.1 —Ahmadou Kourouma This is a story about an out-of-the-way place.2 Macenta Prefecture, Guinea, is one of the remotest parts of the Republic of Guinea, itself one of the least well-known countries on the African continent. Until 1987, there was no paved road reaching into this corner of Guinea, and the 1,000 kilometer trip from Macenta to Guinea’s capital, Conakry took about one week over rutted, treacherous, dirt roads. Macenta’s isolation was an artifact of historical and political forces as well as material ones. This marginality was both a cause and an effect of the Demystification Program that serves as the focal point of this book. The process of marginalization, however, is filled with twists and paradoxes, so we will have to reach backward into regional history to adequately explain it. This chapter sets the scene for the rest of the book by describing the political, economic and social dynamics of warfare in the precolonial period, and the ways that 1 When we say that there’s a tribal war in a country, that means that some highway bandits have carved up the country. -
Liberian Studies Journal
VOLUME XV 1990 NUMBER 1 LIBERIAN STUDIES JOURNAL 1 10 °W 8 °W LIBERIA -8°N 8°N- MONSERRADO GRAND BASSA MARGIBI -6 °N RIVER 1 6 °N- MILES MARYLAND Geography Department 10 °W University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown 1 8oW Published by THE LIBERIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Cover map: compiled by William Kory, cartography work by Jodie Molnar; Geography Department, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor VOLUME XV 1990 NUMBER 1 LIBERIAN STUDIES JOURNAL Editor D. Elwood Dunn The University of the South Associate Editor Similih M. Cordor Kennesaw College Book Review Editor Alfred B. Konuwa Butte College EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Bertha B. Azango Lawrence B. Breitborde University of Liberia Beloit College Christopher Clapham Warren L. d'Azevedo Lancaster University University of Nevada Reno Henrique F. Tokpa Thomas E. Hayden Cuttington University College Africa Faith and Justice Network Svend E. Holsoe J. Gus Liebenow University of Delaware Indiana University Corann Okorodudu Glassboro State College Edited at the Department of Political Science, The University of the South PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor CONTENTS THE UNITED STATES- LIBERIA OPERATIONAL EXPERTS PROJECT 1 by Frank B. Kimble FOUNDING THE LIBERIA ACTION PARTY ..................................... 13 by Byron Tarr FATIMA MASSAQUOI FAHNBULLEH (1912-1978) PIONEER WOMAN EDUCATOR ............................................................................ 48 by Raymond J. Smyke SOARING ABOVE THE CLOUD OF MEDIOCRITY: THE CHALLENGES OF THE LIBERIAN PRESS IN THE NINETIES ......................................... 74 by C. William Allen PEACE CORPS SERVICE IN LIBERIA, 1%5 -1966: REFLECTIONS OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER 85 by Carl E. -
Liberian Studies Journal
VOLUME XXIX 2004 Number 2 LIBERIAN STUDIES JOURNAL I 10°W 8°W LIBERIA -8°N 8°N- LOFA GRAND CAPE MOUNT BONG NIMBA BOMI _a? ,o, MONSERRADO *- GRAND BASSA MARGIBI -6°N RIVER 6°N-' CESS GRAND GEDEH /Or amain. It. SINGE 11144561616p LIBERIA 4411111110 GRAND KRU N 110.4 MILES 0 1 --1 50 le 0 MARYLAND Geography Department 10°W Universty of Pittsburgh at Johnstown 8°W i i Published by THE LIBERIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor LIBERIAN STUDIES JOURNAL Editorial Policy The Liberian Studies Journal is dedicated to the publication of original research on social, politi- cal, economic, scientific, and other issues about Liberia or with implications for Liberia. Opin- ions of contributors to the Journal do not necessarily reflect the policy of the organizations they represent or the Liberian Studies Association, publisher of the Journal. Manuscript Requirements Manuscripts submitted for publication should not exceed 25 typewritten, double-spaced pages, with margins of one-and a-half inches. The page limit includes graphs, references, tables and appendices. Authors may, in addition to their manuscripts, submit a computer disk of their work preferably in MS Word 2000 or WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows. Notes and references should be placed at the end of the text with headings, e.g., Notes; References. Notes, if any, should precede the references. The Journal is published in June and December. Deadline for the first issue is February, and for the second, August. Manuscripts should include a cover page that provides the title of the text, author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and affiliation.