{"id":15190,"date":"2010-01-29T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:40:25","slug":"videos-in-akele-language-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/01\/videos-in-akele-language-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos in Akele – GABON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A word on the Akele language…<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Akele<\/strong> is the language<\/strong> of the Akele <\/strong>people from Gabon<\/strong>. It\u2019s a Bantu language<\/strong>, whose speakers – in total around 9320 people – are scattered around various parts the country. The Akele<\/strong> are fishermen and farmers living along the Ogoou\u00e9 and Ngounie rivers, and in the lake region around Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Read more on the Akele language<\/a><\/p>\n

In May and June 2009, Sorosoro<\/strong> was in the area of Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9 with linguist Jean-Marie Hombert<\/strong> (Lyon 2 University) to shoot a film on Mutumbudie<\/em>, a variant of the Akele language spoken in the Lakes Region. Nowadays there could be less than fifty speakers of Mutumbudie left. The sound and visual material collected along our filming sessions are probably the first documents ever in this variant of Akele<\/strong>, which also seriously endangered<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The videos in Akele<\/span><\/h5>\n
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