FSI. Fula Basic Course. Student Text

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 507
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Издатель/Автор: Foreign Service Institute
Год: 1965
Количество страниц: 507

Fula (also known as Peul, Fulani, etc.) is widely spoken throughout the grassland areas of West Africa from the Atlantic to Cameroun. It has been extensively-studied by scholars interested in its linguistic structure or in the ethnography and culture of its speakers. Few of these studies are of much assistance to the beginning student of the language. The present brief introduction to the essentials of Sene-Gambian Fula is designed to provide the basic grammatical structures likely to be needed early in the student's experience with Fula, plus a more generalized 'feel' for the structure of the language, in the context of a limited vocabulary, likely to prove useful in everyday situations.
This text is one of a series of short Basic Courses in selected African languages being prepared by the Foreign Service Institute under an agreement with the United States Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, under the National Defense Education Act.
The linguist in charge of the project has been Lloyd B. Swift, Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern and African languages. Fula texts, drill sentences and vocabulary were provided and checked, and the tapes voiced by Kalilu Tambadu, Language Instructor. Major assistance in the selection of dialog situations, their elicitation, the construction of drills and the tape recording of the text has been provided by Paul G. Imhoff, Scientific Linguist. The tapes were recorded in the language laboratory of the Foreign Service Institute under the direction of Gabriel Cordova.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Фула