Barbot, Jean 1992

Barbot, Jean. 1992. Barbot's West African vocabularies of c.1680.

@book{55490,
  author     = {Barbot, Jean},
  school     = {Centre of African Studies (CAS), Univ. of Liverpool},
  title      = {Barbot's West African vocabularies of c.1680},
  year       = {1992},
  hhtype     = {wordlist (computerized assignment from "vocabularies")},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  keywords   = {;waf;sng;ghn;bnn;nga;lng;dct;u.121;u.181;u.711;u.811;u.813;},
  lgcode     = {Wolof [wol], Akan [aka], Mandinka [mnk], Pulaar [fuc], Ewe [ewe] (autotranslated from Maho's coding system)},
  macro_area = {Africa},
  notes      = {'The four vocabularies are of the Wolof and Fula languages of Senegal, of the Akan/Twi language of 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana), and of the Ewe/Fon language of Dahomey (today 'Benin'). In his printed account Barbot also included a brief and hybrid vocabulary allegedly of a language spoken at New Calabar (in modern Nigeria) ... A vocabulary of Manding wrongly attributed to Barbot is discussed in Appendix B' (p. 1). The whole work is Available online via the Africana Digitization Project, Libraries of the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.},
  src        = {eballiso2009}
}

Document types

Languages

Name in source Glottolog languoid
Wolof
Akan
Mandinka
Pulaar
Ewe (autotranslated from Maho's coding system)]