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	Ounjougou: Linguistics
		The languages spoken on the Dogon Plateau and adjacent areas are generally known to outsiders as 'Dogon', but this term is not used by individual groups.
		Dogon languages are territorially coherent, suggesting that, despite local migration histories, the Dogon have been in this area of Mali from their origin.
		It may therefore be a remaining representative of the language spoken prior to the expansion of the Dogon proper.
	anthro.unige.ch /lap/ounjougou/linguistic.html (642 words)

	Dogon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dogon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Dogon people are known for their extensive carving of masks and wooden figurative art.
		The masks are symbolic of their ancestors' place in history in relation to the balance between good and evil, and the lives of their successors, the present Dogon tribespeople.
		The Dogon lack centralized political authority and are divided into districts under a hogon, a spiritual leader.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dogon (205 words)

	Dogon Tribe - Nommo - Crystalinks
		Dogon religion is defined primarily through the worship of the ancestors and the spirits whom they encountered as they slowly migrated from their obscure ancestral homelands to the Bandiagara cliffs.
		The Dogon are famous for their astronomical knowledge taught through oral tradition, dating back thousands of years, referencing the star system, Sirius.
		The Dogons calendar is quite non-traditional in that its fifty year cycle is based neither on the Earth's rotation around the Sun (as is our Julian calendar) nor the cycles of the Moon (a lunar calendar).
	www.crystalinks.com /dogon.html (2922 words)

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		Society-DOGON The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.
		The people call themselves Dogon or Dogom (sing., Dogo), but in the older literature they are most often called Habe (sing., Kado), a Fulbe word meaning "stranger" or "pagan." The Dogon are primarily agriculturalists, their principal crops being millet, sorghum, rice, onions, beans, tobacco, and sorrel.
		Dogon villages, usually in groups of about 5 or 6, are concentrated around water holes and referred to as "cantons" or regions.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7840 (1183 words)

	Dogon languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dogon languages are spoken by the Dogon in Mali.
		The Dogon languages show few remnants of a noun class system (one example is that human nouns take a distinct plural suffix), leading linguists to conclude that Dogon is likely to have diverged from Niger-Congo very early.
		The best-studied Dogon language is Toro So (Tɔrɔ Sɔɔ), the speech variety of Sanga, due to Marcel Griaule's studies there and due to the fact that Toro So has been selected by the Malian government for development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dogon_languages (464 words)

	Venus Calendar and Related Lore of the Dogon
		The Dogon of Mali, who live on or near the rugged, arid, Bandiagara Escarpment about 150 miles south of the great bend of the Niger River, were among the last fl African peoples to come into regular contact with Europeans.
		But the Dogon people were less concerned with the foreign cultures these missions represented than with an oppressive Peul political administration, and in 1921 they rebelled, expelling the latter.
		The weather in Dogon country and Venus' and the Sun's declinations favored months 4 to 7--December or January to March or April on the indigenous agricultural calendar--for accurate observation of heliacal risings; the poorest period was June to October (rainy season), corresponding to months 9 to 1 or 2.
	home.earthlink.net /~pcstef/venus_dogon.html (2987 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 26.
		The languages spoken on the Dogon Plateau and adjacent areas in northern Mali are generally known to outsiders as ‘Dogon’, but this term is not used by individual groups.
		Many Dogon languages are known to only have a small number of speakers, but information on populations, locations and language endangerment status was non-existent in most cases.
		Language isolates are extremely rare in the world, and those in Eurasia, such as Basque and Burushaski, have received their fair share of scholarly attention.
	www.ogmios.org /266.htm (1895 words)

	bantu
		The Kordofanian branch is distantly related to the rest of the Niger-Congo languages, and is considered one of the first branches to have separated.
		The Kwa languages are found in a strip along the west coast of Africa from southeastern Nigeria to Liberia.
		The Ijoid languages, spoken in the Niger delta, have proved difficult to classify, as have the Dogon languages, spoken in northeast Mali.
	members.tripod.com /~CoteA/bantu.html (535 words)

	Marcel Griaule Summary
		That the Dogon celebrated exceptional funerary rites in Griaule's honor proves the degree to which they held the researcher in esteem, recognizing him as one of their own.
		It was on this latter expedition that he first visited the Dogon, the ethnic group with whom he would be closely associated for the rest of his career.
		With the outbreak of World War II Griaule was drafted to return to the French airforce and after the war he served as the inaugural professor of the first chair of anthropology at the University of Paris.
	www.bookrags.com /Marcel_Griaule (1515 words)

	Resources on the Dogon
		The Dogon are a group of people living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend in the Bandiagara region.
		Dogon mythology has been said to describe the white dwarf star Sirius B, which orbits Sirius but is not visible without the use of a powerful telescope.
		Since the Dogon did not have telescopes and were not an advanced civilization, he concluded that the only way they could have obtained the information on Sirius B was by contact with an advanced civilization.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Dogon.html (1581 words)

	Dogon people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dogon are a group of people living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region.
		Dogon sculptures are not made to be seen publicly, and are commonly hidden from the public eye within the houses of families, sanctuaries, or kept with the Hogon (Laude, 20).
		Themes found throughout Dogon sculpture consist of figures with raised arms, superimposed bearded figures, horsemen, stools with caryatids, women with children, figures covering their faces, women grinding millet, women bearings vessels on their heads, donkeys bearing cups, musicians, dogs, quadrupled-shaped troughs or benches, figures bending from the waist, mirror-images, aproned figures, and standing figures(Laude, 46-52).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dogon (3811 words)

	Dogon - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Dogon live in a place called Bandiagara, in what is today the nation of Mali, between the fabled city of Timbouctou and the city of Ougadougou.
		Therefore, Sagan and others say, the Dogon must have obtained their knowledge of astronomy from missionaries or traders or other visitors to the area in the years before Griaule was told of their cosmology.
		He says that the Dogon simply incorporated this new knowledge into their already existing beliefs about Sirius A. Reverence for Sirius A, the brightest star in the sky, was not uncommon among ancient peoples, because its appearance in the dawn sky signaled the nearness of summer, with implications for agriculture.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc124.htm (2047 words)

	NECEP database: Dogon
		The Dogon are today one of the most intensively researched ethnic groups on the African continent; anthropological study of quasi industrial proportions has resulted in more than 1800 publications to date on different aspects of Dogon culture.
		Most Dogon live south of the Niger bend in the Bandiagara region, which comprises the Bandigara plateau to the west, the sandy Séno-Gondo plain to the east, and the Bandiagara escarpment, a cliff face of up to 400m height that stretches roughly north-south for about 200km dissecting the region.
		The differences in language are accompanied by significant differences in material culture, oral traditions, and social and ritual institutions among the Dogon of the escarpment, plain and plateau, giving the impression of a heterogenous rather than a homogenous ethnic group.
	www.necep.net /society.php?id_soc=12 (687 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - The Dogon: from isolation to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Dogon are famous not only for their isolation, but also for their knowledge of astronomy.
		He's also a Dogon and keen to point out how far from reality the image projected by the French anthropologists is today.
		In the historic village of Sangha, a popular tourist destination, some Dogons are responding to tourism by abandoning traditional farming and instead selling carvings and cultural artefacts.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/development/050127agl (653 words)

	The African Dogon Tribe and the Sirius B Prophecy (WOVOCA.com - Earth Mother Crying! © )
		The Dogon name for Sirius B (Po Tolo) consists of the word for star (tolo) and the name of the smallest seed known to them (po).
		The Dogon tell the legend of the Nommos, awful-looking beings who arrived in a vessel along with fire and thunder.
		It was from the Nommos that the Dogon claimed their knowledge of the heavens.
	www.wovoca.com /prophecy-dogon-sirius-b.htm (1041 words)

	The Dogon Tribe
		The Dogon people cannot live under 40 degrees heat all day, they can go inside where the mud-brick houses creates insulation, so then their houses are much much cooler, and when it is colder, the house is warmer.
		The Dogon people, when they feel like it they sleep on the roofs of their houses, to escape the heat because the surface of the mud-brick is cool.
		The Landforms in the dogon area is the Bandiagara Escarpment, the plateau and the plains.
	www4.tpgi.com.au /users/dvarvel (1614 words)

	People and Culture of Mali
		The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza.
		Within these regions the Dogon population is most heavily concentrated along a 200 kilometer (125 mile) stretch of escarpment called the Cliffs of Bandiagara near Timbuktu, South of the Sahara Desert in West Africa.
		In all, there are thirty-two languages listed for Mali, but French is the official language and a large part of the population uses Bambara as its mother tongue, and as secondary language it is employed to communicate nationwide.
	www.africaguide.com /country/mali/culture.htm (886 words)

	African Mythology - Roots of African Myths and Legends, Main Gods and Spirits
		Such migrations caused myths and legends to spread from group to group and led to a mixing of myths and legends.
		For instance, as Bantu groups settled in new homelands, they developed legends to explain the origins of their ruling families and the structure of their societies.
		The Dogon say that twin pairs of creator spirits or gods called Nummo hatched from a cosmic egg.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /A-Am/African-Mythology.html (2502 words)

	africa anthropology dogon tribe
		__ "Dogon craftsmen work in wood, iron, and for small objects such as rings, in bronze, and like the flsmith and woodcarvers of the Bamana are highly respected as a separate social group.
		According to Dogon oral tradition, the tribe settled in this area between the i4th and the 15th centuries, after escaping from the Mande kingdom." History and culture.
		Dogon religion is defined primarily through the worship of the ancestors and the spirits whom they encountered as they slowly migrated from their obscure ancestral homelands to the Bandiagara cliffs." You can learn more about Dogon religion as well as culture and history.
	www.archaeolink.com /africa_social_anthropology_dogon.htm (755 words)

	Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Dogons live in tightly-knit villages, where all the men have a role determined at their circumcision ceremony.
		To the Dogon all things come in pairs - the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon, and many of the villages were actually two villages, two halves of one.
		Pays Dogon is not something that lends itself well to explanation on paper - or even to explanation to a western culture - suffice it to say that it was a very spiritual experience.
	www.wizzy.com /andyr/africa/mali.html (1574 words)

	GENDER IMPERIALISM IN ACADEMIA
		Working with informant/translators (many of whom are unreliable), she excuses her inability47 to speak the language by contending that “Dogon languages and dialects are many” (1995, 91).
		This classic imperialistic complaint ignores that the burden of language learning is being shifted on to the Dogons, and that for serious scholarly work to be done language acquisition is crucial since it is the medium in which Dogons’ express their views, histories, philosophic ideas, social values, norms and practices.
		The politics of language, as Abiodun constructed it, requires that interpretive analysis occur within the framework of a culture’s philosophy of arts and creativity in the same way it is done in the West, and as Babalola did with Ijala poetry.
	www.africanphilosophy.com /issue3/nzegwu.html (18394 words)

	Dogon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dogon is a group of languages in the Niger-Congo language family (roughly analogous to the Romance languages in Indo-European), spoken in Mali and Burkina Faso.
		The affiliation of Dogon within Niger-Congo has not been determined with certainty, but it seems to be marginally related to Gur.
		The dictionary was compiled by Marcel Kervran, a member of the Pères Blancs, who lived in the town of Bandiagara, Mali for about 30 years.
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /ceras/dogon (93 words)

	Dogon Country travel guide
		Dogon country is definately one of the highlights of West-Africa and absolutely worth a visit.
		The main thing you will want to do is hike to a number of villages on the escarpment, with a local guide and get to know the people and the way they have lived here for centuries.
		In other cases the best starting point to explore Dogon country is probably Bandiagara.
	www.world66.com /africa/mali/dogoncountry (167 words)

	Ancient Astronauts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These fascinating Dogon legends speak of Jupiter's four moons and Saturn's rings, which were not seen by human beings until the invention of the telescope.
		Furthermore, most Dogon symbology already has multiple levels of meaning; the sketches used to illustrate the Sirius secrets are also used in puberty ceremonies.
		Zecharia Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archeology of the Near East.
	www.etcontact.net /AncientAstronauts.htm (1258 words)

	African Studies Center \| K-12 Guide, Languages
		This is an on-line classification of world languages, including African languages and ethnology derived from the Ethnologue: Languages of the World by Barbara F. Grimes (ed.), and the World Genetic Tree of Languages, by Joseph E. Grimes, B. Bright and Bernard Comrie.
		Luganda, the native language of the people of Buganda in Uganda, developed over the centuries as a spoken language.
		Nyakyusa is one of the relatively few Bantu languages that doesn't make use of tones, but it also differs substantially from surrounding languages in terms of vocabulary.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /K-12/menu_EduLANG.html (444 words)

	NSF, NEH boost efforts to make digital records of dying languages
		This is the second round of their multi-year campaign to preserve records of languages threatened with extinction.
		Seventeen endangered languages of Africa, the country recently highlighted by UNESCO as having the highest concentration of disappearing languages, will be documented under six other DEL awards.
		As part of the International Polar Year initiative, NSF is investing in the documentation and preservation of endangered languages in the Arctic, where approximately 70 percent of the spoken indigenous languages are highly endangered.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-07/nsf-nnb071006.php (697 words)

	Web resources for remnant Niger-Congo languages
		Possibly Dogon should be listed as a branch of its own within Niger-Congo, but it has been placed here for convenience.
		Field data on Dogon languages: Ambaleenge of Kema, Ampari Pa, Ana, Bunoge, Dogul Dom, Nyambeenge, Tebul Ure, Walo, Yanda (several PDFs).
		Dogon dictionary demo/database, originally compiled in the 1960s by Marcel Kervan.
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/nigercongoadds.html (92 words)

	Faculty
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		In particular she is examining the relationship between the maintenance of language skills and the nature of one's social environment and how gender, education and cognition affect that relationship.
		She is particularly interested in language acquisition by deaf and blind children and the implications of neurolinguistic data for cognitive/linguistic theory.
	www.ling.lsa.umich.edu /fac (1675 words)

	Mali Tours - Escorted Tours Of Africa
		Dogon life is centered around sacred rights and rituals which take place in the hollow cliffs on which the Dogon houses are built.
		Dogon culture is surrounded in mysticism and intrigue, from an astonishing knowledge of the solar system to the unique structure of Dogon villages.
		The ancient city of Timbuktu was an important center of Islamic scholarship throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.
	www.palacetravel.com /tours/mali (453 words)

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