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Bende (F12)

Bende(F12)

Bende (F12) is a Bantu language spoken in Katavi and Rukwa regions, Tanzania by 41,000 speakers (Mradi wa Lugha za Tanzania 2009). Bende people are mutually comprehensible with Tongwe (F11) spoken in Karema region. The speech in this archive is based on the Bende variety spoken in and around the Katuma village in Katavi Region.The speaker of all this archive is Mr. Yasini Mashaka (1961-)from Katuma village.

ベンデ語(F12)は,タンザニアのカタヴィ州とルクワ州で約4.1万人によって話されるバントゥ系の言語です.ベンデの人々はカレマ州のトングェ語(F11)の話者と相互理解が可能です.このアーカイブには,ルクワ州のカトゥマ村で話されることばが収録されています.話者はカトゥマ村出身のヤシニ・マシャカ氏(1961生まれ)です。

Parameters with examples

ABE, Yuko (2019) Bende (F12), In: Daisuke Shinagawa and Yuko Abe (eds.) Descriptive materials of morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu: Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. pp.190-223. [LINK, doi/10.15026/99938]

Wordlist

ABE, Yuko (2006) A Bende Vocabulary. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 147pp.

Citation of the metadata

ABE, Yuko (2022) Bende (F12): Morphosyntactic Microvariation, Wordlist (ICULD-0042), In: Kiara Johnson, Sayaka Manabe, Chrisanne Tuaño (eds.) ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 21: ICU Language Database Series 7, Bantu Language Digital Archive (BantuDArc). [LINK, http://doi.org/10.34577/00005140]

ABE, Yuko (2022) Bende (F12): Wordlist (ICULD-0043), In: Kiara Johnson, Chrisanne Tuaño, Sayaka Manabe (eds.) ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 21: ICU Language Database Series 7, Bantu Language Digital Archive (BantuDArc). [LINK, http://doi.org/10.34577/00005141]

This database contains recordings of a list of words and sentences in Bende.

  • All files are annotated at the word level.
  • All samples below are for illustrative purposes.
  • For citing the archival materials, use citation format above.
  • Original recordings that are available upon request are in 16bit and 44.1KHz.
ICULD ID Categories Size Duration (approximate) Description Last modified
0042 Bende (F12): Morphosyntactic variation 69.3 MB 6.4 mins Audio 2022.03.01
Bende (F12): Morphosyntactic variation [Download] 273.5 MB 488 tokens Plots in png 2022.03.01
0043 Bende (F12): Wordlist 896.9 MB 193.4 mins Audio 2022.03.01
Bende (F12): Wordlist [Download] 5.07 GB 9011 tokens Plots in png 2022.03.01
0048 Bende (F12): Folk songs 1.26 GB 10.57 mins Audio 2023.03.31
Bende (F12): Folk songs [Download] 3.5 MB 19 songs plots and staff notes in pdf 2023.03.31

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