Dogon texts
Dogon texts are given here in paired pdf files, one with a transcription and the other with an English free translation. Any transcriptions or translations that need to be checked or that are otherwise doubtful are color-highlighted, and these should not be used as primary data at this time.
Jamsay (Dogon, Mali)
Tape 2004_03, track A, texts 2004_03_1 to _15
Contents: 1. Collective hunt, 2. Lion, 3. Women incite men to hunt, 4. Fights with an elephant, a lion, and a leopard, 5. Snakes, 6. Millet growth stages, 7. Introduction of the plow, 8. Crop pests, 9. After the harvest, 10. Relations with Fulbe, 11. Origin of Dianwely village, 12. Blacksmith caste, 13. Blacksmith women, 14. Spinning and weaving, 15. Sege caste
- Jamsay_2004_03_trackA_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Jamsay_2004_03_trackA_translation_Heath.pdf (translation)
- Jamsay texts (transcription) (May, 2011)
- Jamsay texts (translation) (May, 2011)
Najamba (Dogon, Mali)
- Najamba_Adia_2005-1a_01_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Najamba_Adia_2005-1a_01_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)
- Najamba_Adia_2005-2a_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Najamba_Adia_2005-2a_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)
Ben Tay (Beni) (Dogon, Mali)
- Beni.2005-1.complete.pdf (transcription)
- Beni.2005-1.complete.trans.pdf (translation)
- Beni.2005-2.complete.pdf (transcription)
- Beni.2005-2.trans.complete.pdf (translation)
- Ben Tey texts recorded 2005 in Beni, Mali (transcription) (Nov, 2011)
- Ben Tey texts recorded 2005 in Beni Mali (translation) (Nov 2011)
Nanga (Dogon, Mali)
- Nanga Texts (transcription), recorded 2004 and 2007 in Anda village, Mali (Jan, 2012)
- Nanga Texts (translation), recorded 2004 and 2007 in Anda village, Mali (Jan, 2012)
Togo Kan (Dogon, Mali)
- Togo Kan text (transcription) (2011)
- Togo Kan text (translation) (2011)
- Togo Kan text (transcription) (2011)
- Togo Kan text (translation) (2011)
Toro Tegu (Tabi, Tabi-Sarinyere) (Dogon, Mali)
- Toro Tegu texts (transcription), recorded 2004 in Tupere, Mali (March, 2011)
- Tabi texts (translation) 2004-1a (March, 2011)
- Tabi_2004-1a_01-10_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Tabi_2004-1a_01-10_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)
- Tabi_2004-1b_01-04_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Tabi_2004-1b_01-04_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)
- Tabi_2004-2a_01-08_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Tabi_2004-2a_01-08_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)
- Tabi_2004-2b_01-10_original_Heath.pdf (transcription)
- Tabi_2004-2b_01-10_trans_Heath.pdf (translation)