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Bangime language
Bangime (/ˌbæŋɡiˈmeɪ/; bàŋɡí–mɛ̀, or, in full, Bàŋgɛ́rí-mɛ̀) is a language isolate spoken by 3,500 ethnic Dogon in seven villages in southern Mali, who call themselves the bàŋɡá–ndɛ̀ ("hidden people").[citation needed]
Bangande is the name of the ethnicity of this community. The Bangande consider themselves to be Dogon, but other Dogon people insist they are not.
Health and Hantgan report that Bangime is spoken in the Bangande valley, which cuts into the western edge of the Dogon high plateau in eastern Mali. Roger Blench reports that Bangime is spoken in 7 villages east of Karge, near Bandiagara, Mopti Region, central Mali (Blench 2007).[citation needed] The villages are:
Ethnologue classifies Bangime as 6a - Vigorous. This level is “middle of the scale” of language endangerment (EGIDS), corresponding to languages that “are not developing, but neither are they endangered since they enjoy vigorous face-to-face use in daily life by all generations.”.
Long known to be highly divergent from the (other) Dogon languages, it was first proposed as a possible isolate by Blench (2005). Jeff Heath and Abbie Hantgan have hypothesized that the cliffs surrounding the Bangande valley provided isolation of the language as well as safety for Bangande people. Even though Bangime is not related to the Dogon languages, the Bangande still consider their language to be Dogon. Hantgan and List report that Bangime speakers seem unaware that it is not mutually intelligible with any Dogon language.
Roger Blench, who discovered the language was not a Dogon language, notes:
which he dates to 3,000–4,000 years ago.[citation needed]
Bangime has been characterised as an anti-language, i.e., a language that serves to prevent its speakers from being understood by outsiders, possibly associated with the Bangande villages having been a refuge for escapees from slave caravans.
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Bangime language
Bangime (/ˌbæŋɡiˈmeɪ/; bàŋɡí–mɛ̀, or, in full, Bàŋgɛ́rí-mɛ̀) is a language isolate spoken by 3,500 ethnic Dogon in seven villages in southern Mali, who call themselves the bàŋɡá–ndɛ̀ ("hidden people").[citation needed]
Bangande is the name of the ethnicity of this community. The Bangande consider themselves to be Dogon, but other Dogon people insist they are not.
Health and Hantgan report that Bangime is spoken in the Bangande valley, which cuts into the western edge of the Dogon high plateau in eastern Mali. Roger Blench reports that Bangime is spoken in 7 villages east of Karge, near Bandiagara, Mopti Region, central Mali (Blench 2007).[citation needed] The villages are:
Ethnologue classifies Bangime as 6a - Vigorous. This level is “middle of the scale” of language endangerment (EGIDS), corresponding to languages that “are not developing, but neither are they endangered since they enjoy vigorous face-to-face use in daily life by all generations.”.
Long known to be highly divergent from the (other) Dogon languages, it was first proposed as a possible isolate by Blench (2005). Jeff Heath and Abbie Hantgan have hypothesized that the cliffs surrounding the Bangande valley provided isolation of the language as well as safety for Bangande people. Even though Bangime is not related to the Dogon languages, the Bangande still consider their language to be Dogon. Hantgan and List report that Bangime speakers seem unaware that it is not mutually intelligible with any Dogon language.
Roger Blench, who discovered the language was not a Dogon language, notes:
which he dates to 3,000–4,000 years ago.[citation needed]
Bangime has been characterised as an anti-language, i.e., a language that serves to prevent its speakers from being understood by outsiders, possibly associated with the Bangande villages having been a refuge for escapees from slave caravans.