25.2419, Media: 'New Scientist' feature about Bangime

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Subject: 25.2419, Media: 'New Scientist' feature about Bangime

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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:24:39
From: Matthew Bradley [matbradl at gmail.com]
Subject: 'New Scientist' feature about Bangime

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 A feature in the May 31, 2014, issue of "New Scientist" focuses on Abbie Hantgan's doctoral research with the Bangande people and their language, Bangime.

Hantgan's doctoral research took place as part of the Dogon Languages Project and was motivated in part to further investigate Roger Blench's proposal of Bangime as a language isolate. To find out more about the Dogon Languages Project, go to http://www.dogonlanguages.org/. In addition to serving as a brief popular introduction to the concept of language isolates, the article also examines the role of the historic slave trade in the development of Bangande society, as well as the possible relationship between the slave trade and Bangime diglossia. Finally, Hantgan's work is brought into dialogue with ongoing reconstruction of the historical demography of the Bandiagara Plateau and adjacent Seno Plain, including advances in research on the Tellem archaeological culture.

An HTML version of the feature is available to the magazine's subscribers at:
http://goo.gl/S1zSXD

A PDF version is available for $2 (should you not have institutional access) via the ScienceDirect database at:
http://goo.gl/wm1dLP 

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Matthew Timothy Bradley, “The Secret Ones,” New Scientist 222, no. 2971 (May 31, 2014): 42–45, doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(14)61070-8.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Bangi Me (dba)

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