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Kpelle (Welmers)

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Subject Languages: 
Kpelle
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Kpelle
English
Locations: 
Africa
Liberia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
The author voices both the English and Kpelle portions of Lessons 1-10 of an unidentified text (Welmers' Course on Elementary Kpelle of 1974?).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Masters are (apparently) dubs, made at the LLA in the 1979, from (unidentified) copies. Date of the original recordings is unknown. Note: The persistent "static" heard throughout the recordings was apparently on the lent copies. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Welmers, William E. (?)

West African tonal series, using examples from Jabo (c. 1935)

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Locations: 
Africa
Liberia
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“A linguistic record of Jabo, a language of an eastern Liberian group, recorded by Charles Blooah” (a slate from one of the recordings). Note: Ethnologue puts this language/dialect into the Grebo macrolanguage "grb".
Collection Technical Notes: 
Records are nine 10-inch, needle-cut aluminum discs in paper sleeves (date of production unknown). (Inasmuch as these one-of-a-kind discs reside in the DMA, they were probably recorded at the University--and not in the field.) In 1979 Donald H. Ledin transcribed the discs onto tape. (His slates were recorded on the right track only.) Note: the recordings are marred by frequent interruptions occasioned by needle damage. Also note: the tape has been used for digitizing inasmuch as current DMA equipment will not yield playback as good as Ledin's. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
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