| Author/Contributor(s): | Heath, Jeffrey ; Hantgan, Abbie |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter |
| Date: | 03/19/2018 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Spoken only in a cul-de-sac valley in Dogon country in east-central Mali, Bangime is the most enigmatic language isolate in the whole of interior West Africa. It is apparently a Basque-like survival of a formerly widespread language family, now boxed into this small valley by the expansion of Niger-Congo languages (Dogon, Bozo, Mande) on all sides. This book brings out the full glory of its grammar, especially its 3-level tone system.