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This blog is dedicated to the Midob people of Northern Darfur. It is my hope that their beautiful language will continue to enrich the linguistic and cultural landscape of Sudan.
Currently I'm collecting and editing some material and want to make it available here. I'd be glad if other people join in and start contributing - please don't hesitate to contact me (see the contact form at the right). And I hope, that the linguistic community, but also especially the speakers of Midob will benefit from the information gathering here.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Original Material from Roland Werner

Here is some raw Material from the field work of Roland Werner, which he did in 1987/88. When he published his material in "Tìdn-áal: A Study of Midob (Darfur-Nubian)" (Berlin: Reimer, 1993), he mentioned more material:
"A collection of over 30 narrative texts and another 2400 sentences have been excluded from the present publication for various reasons (amongst them printing costs), but it is hoped that they will be published at some future date."
While the narrations still only exist as handwritten notes and on tape, Roland Werner had done a print of the above sentences which he gave me to scan. These documents were of course not intended to be published in their current state, but nevertheless are valuable resources to continue working with. To give you an impression, here some samples from his material: