Kujamaat Jóola

This web site, which is under construction, will make available on the web Folklore and Language materials collected in the 1960s among the Kujamaat Jóola (Diola Fogny) who live in the Casamance region of Sénégal. On the above map the people can be found in the area including the town of Bignona and the villages to the North, including Bitibiit, Katinong, Sindian etc.

As a first step in setting up this web page we are posting these items:

• The Language:
• A dictionary of the Kujamaat-Jóola language with French and English translations.
• Kujamaat-Phonetics
• Le Diola et le temps - the section of the paper devoted to the Kujamaat language including a discussion of the verbal inflection.(published in Bulletin de de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, 1967) (A PDF file, in French, ).
• Two papers on the tense/lax distinction in Jóola phonology:
  • Big and Thin (published in Linguage in Society (University of Cambridge Press)) [A PDF file]
  • Kujamaat-Jóola Phonetics. [A PDF file]
• A sample of extemporaneous funeral songs, Buñansah, as sung by Añara Jeme of Jilakunda.
• A folktale, as told by Fofana Badji, recorded 1960: Hyena and Lizard

(The velar nasal - marked by a n with a right descender will not show in the Opera and Netscape browsers (it shows as [h]). — It will show with Firefox 2 (not 3) and MS Explorer.)