Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria)

Salffner, Sophie

Abstract

This dataset is a partially annotated audio-visual corpus of linguistic and cultural data for the Ikaan lect of the Ukaan/AIKA language cluster.

For the Ikaan lect, there are audio recordings of stories, riddles, proverbs, songs, historical narratives, personal stories, some speeches and recordings of explanations of procedures such as yam pounding or broom making. For these procedures, there are also photo series to go with the recordings. In addition, there are audio recordings of standard linguistic questionnaires and elicitation sessions, mostly focusing on the tone system and the numeral system of the language. Some of the recordings are electronically transcribed and annotated with word-by-word glosses and free translations. There is also a Toolbox project with a some interlinearised texts and the beginnings of an Ikaan-English dictionary.

In addition to data on the Ikaan lect, there are recordings of standard linguistic questionnaires and additional elicitations for the other three Ukaan languages spoken in Auga, Ise and Ayanran.

Citation

Salffner, S. (2010). Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria). [Data]

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Oct 16, 2012
• Publisher URL: http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/salffner2008ikaan
• Type of Data: annotated audio-visual corpus
• Additional Information: Copyright Statement : Access rights to the data are defined in the published corpus. Users of any part of the deposit should acknowledge Sophie Salffner as the data collector and researcher. Users should also acknowledge the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen, the School and Oriental and African Studies and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as the funders. Further, individual speakers whose words and/or images are used should be acknowledged by name and any other contributors who collected, transcribed or translated the data should be acknowledged by name. All information on contributors is available in the metadata. To refer to any data from the corpus, please cite the corpus in this way: Salffner, Sophie. 2010. Ikaan and related dialects of Ukaan: an archive of language and cultural material from the Akaan people of Ikakumo (Ondo State, Nigeria). SOAS. (Add link here + date of access); Additional Information : None of the data in the corpus may be used as evidence in court.