Mani
Bullom So; Northern Bullom; Bolom; Bulem; Bullun; Bullin; Mmani; Mandingi; Mandenyi;
Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Mel
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"In Sierra Leone the language is decidedly more vital than in Guinea."
2011
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Samu Region
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"...straddling the border on the coastal plain of Sierra Leone and Guinea. No villages in Guinea can be found in which Mani is the dominant language, although distinct sections and sometimes entire towns are ethnically Mani. In Sierra Leone, however, Mani remains a sometimes daily language in a small collection of geographically close villages around Moribaya in Kambia District."
Virtually no [Guinea] government support exists.
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"...straddling the border on the coastal plain of Sierra Leone and Guinea. No villages in Guinea can be found in which Mani is the dominant language, although distinct sections and sometimes entire towns are ethnically Mani. In Sierra Leone, however, Mani remains a sometimes daily language in a small collection of geographically close villages around Moribaya in Kambia District."
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French is the language of schools, government and former colonial power.
"Revitalization at the institutional level in Guinea seems unlikely... On the Sierra Leone side there exists a concerted effort to preserve the indigenous languages through what is called the 'National Linguistic Program', a project devoted to developing indigenous languages... In Kigbali (Guinea), the Mani have been denied representation in the local cultural society because of their minority status... Nonetheless, the Mani of Kigbali were flattered by the attention being paid to them and their language... there is some deep-seated and even fierce attachment to the language."
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"One town chief on the Isle of Kabak even called speaking to the ancestors in Mani ‘speaking to the devil’ [...] domains for the use of Mani have disappeared, but the battering of the language is even more intense as children mock their playmates if they speak Mani, even on the Sierra Leone side of the border."
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"Since the few hundred remaining speakers are elderly and widely scattered, the language seems destined to die. As part of an earlier documentation project, however, it was discovered that on a remote island in Sierra Leone, children still grow up speaking the language. These children won a special Mani cultural competition in 2009 demonstrating the traditional arts of singing, dancing, and story-telling, and were provided with the first Mani books."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- NSF Award Abstract: Video-documenting the dying language Mani in Sierra LeoneGeorge Childs. 2011. "NSF Award Abstract: Video-documenting the Dying Language Mani in Sierra Leone." Online: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1065609&WT.z_pims_id=12816.http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1065609&WT.z_pims_id=12816
- Documenting the moribund language Mmani, a Southern Atlantic language of Niger-CongoChilds, Tucker. 2004. "Documenting the Moribund Language Mmani, a Southern Atlantic Language of Niger-Congo." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=45.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=45
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and CausesG. Tucker Childs. 2006. "Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and Causes." In The Joy of Language: Proceedings of a symposium honoring the colleagues of David Dwyer on the occasion of his retirement, Online: https://www.msu.edu/~dwyer/16-Childs.doc.https://www.msu.edu/~dwyer/16-Childs.doc
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