18 January, 2010

Logba/Ikpana

For anyone interested in hearing what the language Logba/Ikpana sounds like, listen to Peter Ladefoged's two recordings at the UCLA phonetics lab archive here: http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/LGQ/lgq.html. The recordings were made in 1962 and are of a male speaker from Logba Tota (the top of the mountain). Speakers in Logba Tota reportedly have the most pronounced dialectal differences.

Also, the grammatical description of the language which was written by one of my advisors, Dr. Kofi Dorvlo, can be found here: A Grammar of Logba (Ikpana), Dorvlo 2008. It includes a word list of about 1,600 entries.

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