Language name and location: Baga Mandori, Boké, Guinea [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 曼多里巴加语, 几内亚西部博凯省努涅斯河流域地区

1. piin

21.  ocoo kəmarəm dipiinaŋ

2. marəm

22.  ocoo kəmarəm dimarəmaŋ

3. masaas

23.  ocoo kəmarəm dimasaasaŋ

4. maaŋkəlɛɛŋ

24.  ocoo kəmarəm maaŋkəlɛɛŋaŋ

5. kəcaamət

25.  ocoo kəmarəm dikəcaamətaŋ

6. kəcaamtr tiin      (5+1)

26.  ocoo kəmarəm dikəcaamtr tiinaŋ

7. kəcaamtr marəm (5+2)

27.  ocoo kəmarəm dikəcaamtr marəmaŋ

8. kəcaamtr masaas (5+3)

28.  ocoo kəmarəm dikəcaamtr masaasaŋ

9. kəcaamtr maaŋkəlɛɛŋ (5+4)

29. ocoo kəmarəm dikəcaamtr maaŋkəlɛɛŋaŋ

10. ocoo

30.  ocoo kəmasaas

11. ocoo dipiinaŋ

40.  ocoo kəmaaŋkəlɛɛŋ

12. ocoo dimarəmaŋ

50.  ocoo kəcaamət

13. ocoo dimasaasaŋ

60.  ocoo kəcaamtr tiin(aŋ)

14. ocoo maaŋkəlɛɛŋaŋ

70.  ocoo kəcaamtr marəm(aŋ)

15. ocoo dikəcaamətaŋ

80.  ocoo kəcaamtr masas(aŋ)

16. ocoo dikəcaamtr tiinaŋ

90.  ocoo kəcaamtr maaŋkəlɛɛŋ(aŋ)

17. ocoo dikəcaamtr marəmaŋ

100. asaar ŋiiŋ

18. ocoo dikəcaamtr masaasaŋ

200. isaar marəm

19. ocoo dikəcaamtr maaŋkəlɛɛŋaŋ

1000. awul ŋiiŋ (from Susu )

20. ocoo kəmarəm

2000. iwul marəm

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Frank Seidel, University of Florida, USA, January 21, 2017.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Frank Seidel, 2017 年 1 月 27 日.

Other comments: Baga Mandori has a decimal system with a base-five structure. Baga Mandori is spoken by approximately 4,000 speakers in several villages on delta islands, between Nunez river and Komponi river, Boké region, Guinea.

(1)  Baga Mandori is a tonal language. Research has not progressed far enough to include a tonal analysis in this contribution.

(2)  Baga Mandori has an eight-vowel system with three front vowels, three back vowels, and two central vowels. Vowel length is phonologically distinctive for all vowels except the centralized /ə/ is phonologically.

                          Table 1: Vowel system of Baga Mandori 

Table 2: Consonant system of Baga Mandori

(3) Sounds in parentheses only appear in obvious loans in my material. The orthographical convention for sounds that differs from the phonological transcription is given in {}.