1994
137 pp.
numerous maps and illustrations
Text language: English
This volume is the first report of the Bole Language and Documentation Unit (BOLDU), whose aim it is to gather, analyse, perserve and publish everything connected with the language, culture, and history of the Bole people in north-eastern Nigeria. Bole-Tangale belongs to the West Chadic branch of the Chadic language family (subgroup West Chadic A.2) and has about 100,000 speakers in northern Nigeria.
Part I is devoted to some of the crafts in the Bole region of Yobe state. The authors, being both linguists, concentrated on the Bole crafts terminology.
Part II consists of an article on the physical geography of the region, an article on Fika urban geography and a contribution to the study of the toponyms of the region.
In Part III, the yet unpublished Guide to the Potiskum Museum is presented. It is accompanied by a Catalogue of the Artefacts in the Museum. At the end of the volume, a Bole-English glossary is appended.
CONTENTS
Part I
Dymitr Ibriszimow / Alhaji Maina Gimba:
Crafts
Part II
Jürgen Heinrich:
Landscape Development and Environmental Change in Northern Parts of the Gongola Basin, Northeastern Nigeria
Rupert Kawka:
A Survey on Migration from Fika, Northeastern Nigeria
Dymitr Ibriszimow / Alhaji Maina Gimba:
Toponyms
Part III
Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay / Wilhelm Seidensticker:
Guide to Potiskum Museum with Catalogue of Artefacts
Dymitr Ibriszimow / Alhaji Maina Gimba:
Glossary Bole-English