Market_Day_2

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Market_Day_2

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/9ed944ad-c2ce-475f-82fe-b6cdea204fcd

Title: Fish haggling in Ofambe market

Description: Fish traders and buyers are haggling.

Date created: 2019-06-11

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Nigeria

Region: Cross River

Address: Ofambe, Obudu

Project

ID: SG0483

Name: 0492-SG0483

Description: Ubang [ISO 639-3 uba] is a Cross River, Bendi language spoken by 11,100 natives of Obudu, Cross-River State, Nigeria (SIL, 2013). It has an exotic gender-based diglossia whereby females and males use different words to refer to the same basic concept and thing. Ubang, however, is as endangered by diminishing number of speakers - due to occupational emigration and language contact, as by receding gender diglossia resulting from ceasing intergenerational transfer. This project aims to document Ubang's disappearing natural diglossic conversations, folktales and cultural rites of passage to be annotated, archived, analysed and reported as tonal grammar and cultural dictionary.