Projektnummer

0055816

Zusammenfassung

Ngong, Nsong and Tsambaan are three Bantu languages spoken in the vicinity of Kikwit (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Due to increasing urbanization and the growing popularity of Kikongo and Lingala, the survival of these rural languages is severely threatened. These languages will be systematically documented through the recording of diverse communicative events, amongst others different genres of oral literature. These will be transcribed, annotated and translated in order to serve for future corpus-based lexical and grammatical descriptions. Special attention will be paid to lang...