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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] djehuti quote: ____________________________________________________________ One language in the Dogon-speaking area is apparently not Dogon but which is difficult to classify, Ba?gi me (see separate report). This language contains some Niger-Congo roots but is lexically very remote from all other languages in West Africa. It is presumably the last remaining representative of the languages spoken prior to the expansion of the Dogon proper. This is dealt with in a separate piece below... ..The classification of Ba?gi me All the authors that have written about Ba?gi me have noted how different it is from other Dogon varieties. The only published data on this language is the short wordlist of ‘Yeni’ in Bertho (1953:433) which appears to be accurate and the hundred words collected by the Durieux in 1998, cited in Hochstetler et al. (2004). These latter forms incorporate significant elements from the bound morphology and should thus be used with care. _______________________________________________ Interesting information. I would like to add that the Dogon claim to be Mande, but most linguist do not believe that Dogon is related to the Mande group of languages. .. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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