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SIL International, 2004. - 189 p. The reason for doing this survey was a desire to know whether the goal of all Dogon speakers being able to understand written material in the T¡r¡-s¡¡ speech variety is practicable. The purpose of this survey was to provide data necessary for SIL administrators in Mali to decide whether or not there is a need for SIL to be further involved in various aspects of Dogon language deve lopment. The pivotal question for SIL in Mali is whether or not the average speaker of every identified Dogon speech variety can presen tly understand the T¡r¡-s¡¡ speech variety adequately (let alone express himself in it) since the Malian government has officially chosen it as the sole Dogon standard. Adequate comprehension could be possi ble from either inherent intelligibility (section 1.3 defines this term) or because of widespread high-level bilingualism. This report provides information that indicates that T¡r¡-s¡¡ is inherently intelligible to some degree with speakers of some Dogon varieties, but that with others it definitely is not. No attempt is made to assess the general level of bilingualism of speakers of varieties who find T¡r¡-s¡¡ unintelligible, nor to

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Author

Hochstetler J.Lee, Durieux J.A., Durieux-Boon E.I.K.

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AF

Category

nonfiction

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Language Learning, Language