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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-DE60-A

Date created: Unspecified

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Cameroon

Region: Far North Region

Address: Ndurey Neighbourhood

Project

ID: IGS0267

Name: 0367-IGS0267

Description: Cuvok is a Central Chadic language spoken in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Tchouvok traditional society pivots around blacksmiths, who play a number of other key social roles: doctor, metalworker, mortician, mind-reader, and midwife. With the introduction of Islam, Christianity and modernism, the knowledge possessed by the blacksmith is no longer transmitted to the younger generation. This documentation project is integrated into my PhD research, which aims at a usage-based grammatical description of Cuvok. Much of my corpus will be composed of video recordings. Ethnographic notes will complement my annotated texts.