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NOTICE  OF  LANGUAGE  MATERIALS  DEPOSITED  BY  M.E.  KROPP*

It  was gathered  for  purely  linguistic  purposes,  of  vocabulary

The  material  desposited below  was collected  by myself over  a
period  of  four years,  and  has been  deposited with  the  Director  of  the
Institute. 
collection  and grammatical  exemplification,  and  is therefore  very
general  in  nature.  This notice  is inserted  in  the  hope  that  the  material
might  be of  interest  to anthropologists  and  those  interested  in  oral  art,
as well  as to other  linguists.

Go-Ada ng me

songs  * 

In  some cases  the  songs are  followed  by  comments by  the

About  three  hours of  tape  of  Ga  speech  have been deposited  in
the  Institute  library.  All  of  this has been  transcribed  in  phonemic  tran-
scription  with  tone  markings,  in some cases  including  clause  contours,
and  translated.  The  transcriptions  and  translations  have  been  deposited
with  the  Director.  The material  includes: 
including  specimens
of  Suolee  (II),  Nkata  (2),  Adaawe  (2),  Ali  (2),  Tungme  (1),  Gome  (1),
Sokpoti  (1). 
singer.  There  are  libations  by various Accra  wulome?  and also by  private
persons,  conversations  on general  topics and  to demonstrate  greetings,
authoritative  (but  very  brief)  descriptions  of  Otublohum  customs and  tra-
ditions,  several  ananse  stories  recorded  "in  situ" and others  re-told  in
artificial  recording  situationsr  There are also accounts of  personal
experiences  and  historical  narrations  which  vary  in quality.  More  than
half  of  the  recorded  material  is from members of Adioko  Okaf  We,  and
all  of  it  is by  people  from  Central  Accra,  i.e.  west of  the  Central  Post

*  Dr.  M.E.  Kropp  is a  Research  Fellow  in  Linguistics.

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Office,  except  for  one  long story and  two short speeches by  Teshi
people  who were  resident  at  the  time  of  recording  at  an  Adzoko
Okai  We  farming  village  (Manchie).

About  one  hour of  tape  of Adangme  speech  has been  deposited

It  has not  yet  been  possible  to deposit  transcriptions

in  the  library. 
and  translations,  but  these  have  been  prepared and  it  is hoped  to do so
in  the  near  future.  The  tape  contains a  libation  and seven  Klama songs,
all  sung by  the  Ahulu  wono  of Ada.  There  are  also  five  stories  told by
school  boys at  Ada* Secondary  School.  One  of  the  narrators came  from
Somanya,  but  the  rest were  Adas.  There  are  descriptions  of Ada  customs
by an  elderly  farmer,  and some short speeches  by  fishermen  of  Ocansey
Kope  near  Ada.  The  latter  are  mainly  evocations  of  fishing,  and  occa-
sionally  quite  poetic.  There are  also six  stories  recorded  in  Legoo  by a
citizen  of  Krobo  Odumase.

For both  Ga  and Adangme,  lists of morphemes  (which are  by no

means  complete  morpheme  dictionaries)  which  include, tone,  grammatical
class and  English  gloss  have  been deposited with  Director. 
In  these
lists  the  morphemes are  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  and  there  are
companion  lists  in  which  the  English glosses are  in alphabetical  order.
The  lists are  in  the  form of  IBM paper-tape  output,  and spellings  are
consequently  somewhat  unconventional,  but a  key  is provided.

Also  deposited are  ten  computer  programmes,  written  for  the

IBM  1620 at  present  in  use  in  the  Physics Department  of  the  University
of  Ghana,  and with  the  very  kind  help  of  Dr.  J.  Koster  of  that  department.
The  programmes are  accompanied  by brief  notes,  and  the  results  obtained
for  Ga  and Adangme  when  the  programmes were  run using as data  the
items  in  the  lists mentioned  above.  Three of  the  programmes  put  items
in alphabetical  order.  The others count  the  occurrences of  phonemes,  and
do simple  statistical  manipulations  on  them,  give  matrix-form  representation!
of  the  types of  syHable  that  occur  fn  the  data,  count monosyllabic  items,  etc

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Voita  Region  Languages

h  1 it/ 

the  Institute  of  African  Studies  published  word  fists

of  telana,  Akpafu  and  Avatime  as  the  third  vcsiume  In  the  Comparative
African  Wordlisrs  series.  Copies  are  being  deposited  of  the  approxiâ„¢
rnaieiySSQ  sentences  in  each  longuage  on  which  the  verb  entries,  i.e.
items  2001  and  upwards,  were  based.  The sentences  in  Lefana  and
Avatime  have  been  deposited.  Akpafu  sentences,  and  a!so  the  Ewe
sentences  from  which  the  Ewe verbs  of  the  second volume  of  the  series
(GS%  Adangme  and  Ewe)  were  drawn,  will  be  deposited  shortly,.