This week's episode is with Richard T. Griscom, a post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University. Richard's research focuses on language documentation, fieldwork methodology, and functional-typological linguistic description and theory, with a special emphasis on the languages of East Africa. Over the past five years, he has been working with the Asimjeeg Datooga and the Hadzabe, both endangered minority language communities of northern Tanzania.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Firebird Foundation
Datooga language
Documentation of Isimjeeg Datooga (ELAR deposit)
Hadza language
Nilotic language family
Bantu language family
Cushitic language family
The Linguistic Geography of Africa (chapter referenced: The Tanzanian Rift Valley Area by Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous, and Derek Nurse)
Richard’s website
Richard’s equipment:
Camcorders: Panasonic HC-X920, Sony FDR-AX53 with HVL-LEIR1, Panasonic HC-V800, GoPro Hero7
Microphones: Shure SM 35 XLR headset, RODE NTG-2 shotgun, Rode NT4 stereo, Audio-Technica AT803b lavalier
Audio Recorders: Zoom H4n, Zoom H5
Android smartphones (Techno W4) + RODE smartLav + microphones
Anker solar panel + USB battery charger
Anker power banks
Eneloop rechargeable Ni-MH batteries
Toshiba hard drives
Lenovo Thinkpad
Anker Bluetooth keyboard
UE Bluetooth speakers
Laptops: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, HP Stream
non-mobile solar systems (similar)
Rode wireless system: RX-CAM & TX-XLR
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