[AfricanLanguages] Documenting and describing languages

[Hussein Saeed]

Dear Friends,

Do I need to be a native or fluent speaker of a language in order to start documenting and describing it?What is the difference between describing and documenting a language?I understand that any effort in language description is a step forward in documenting it.

Yours,

Hussein Saeed.

Anja Choon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Don,

 

I too think that recordings are very helpful. Just text will not tell you how to pronounce phrases.

 

That's why we are trying to include recordings in our lessons at uwandiigbo.com. We have also one page where you can directly click at the orthographic transcriptions to listen to a native speaker ( http://www.uwandiigbo.com/recordings/SurvivalIgbo).

 

A friend of mine has also worked on something similar for Ega (http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/phonlab/survega.htm). They've used phonetic transcriptions I think.

 

I hope there will be more recordings and on more languages soon. Greetings, Anja

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