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I want it to be as easy and normal to learn African languages as Western languages like French or English so I made a full online beginner's class for Bambara/Dioula:
ankataa.com/course
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Coleman Donaldson
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Coleman Donaldson
@DonaldsonCD
Linguistic anthropologist. Speaks and teaches Manding (AKA Bambara, Dioula and Malinké) via @ankataa_project
Paris, France Katılım Nisan 2012
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Just finished teaching my last Bambara/Jula class of the semester 🥳😴
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Déjà Bagayoko n’est pas Soninké, puis il dit être forgeron (numu), dans les sociétés sahéliennes les forgerons sont du groupe des artisans (nyamakala), ce sont des gens qui vivent de leur travail. Les "nobles" sont très nombreux chez nous (+40%) c’est pas la noblesse européenne
Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse@F_Desouche
L’esclavage chez les Soninkés, l’ethnie dont Bally Bakayoko affirme avec fierté être issu de la noblesse.
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@DonaldsonCD Nice!! Could you kindly assist me with a translation? Just two lines 🙏🏾🙏🏾 please DM if easier
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A student asked me about Bambara language movies so I finally got around to doing a little write-up with links, etc :-)
ankataa.com/blog/2025/12/1…
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@DonaldsonCD Hello, do you by any chance understand the Bambara language?
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@BridgesFromBKO Payi! She had some other great lines/reactions in there too. This one in response to "Why do people get married?" was awesome:
> N ma nin lɔn dɛ!
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Norms of marriage differ around the world! 💍So I made a video with answers in Bambara/Jula from people in Abidjan — who is married, kids, challenges, and why people get married at all 🙃
youtube.com/watch?v=9lbt3S…
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Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now finally online! Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316
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TikTok often hides comments in Bambara (as "folded comments") on my "An ka taa" acccount because their system says they may affect people's well-being 😡 Also you can't specify that a video is even in Bambara so I have to say that they are in French 🤬
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That feeling when the subtitles are laid down after hours and hours of filming and editing and transcribing and translating :-) New episode of "Na baro kè" coming soon!
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@BridgesFromBKO :-) That's one way to gloss it but I think that the augmentative suffix -ba in this usage is closer to saying "the Great" as in "America the Great" (though obviously 'the Great' is typically used for countries)
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I wonder if Ivoirians and Senegalese are worried about Malian expansionism, given how often Bambara speakers evoke "Maliba" (greater Mali).
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Does Morocco have territorial designs over northern #Mali (and many other places besides)? This Malian writer alleges that there is a dream of a "Greater Morocco" that would extend southward to Mauritania and Gao. Should his claim be taken seriously?
news.abamako.com/h/304574.html
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The video isn't ready yet, but here's some stills from the next episode of "Na baro kè" street interviews in Bambara/Jula with subtitles :-) This one is about "furu" (marriage) 💍
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Cool to see how "Artificial Intelligence" is translated in Bambara by @RFI_Ma:
"Hakili duman dilannen" = Lit. 'Constructed Nice Intellect'
:-)
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After greetings, people find it helpful to know how to say basics like "yes", "no" and "excuse me", etc., so I made a whole video about essential expressions for Maninka (AKA "Malinké") learners :-)
youtu.be/R4tzQQXXk04
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