{"id":69,"date":"2016-05-09T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2018-05-26T22:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:08:52","slug":"literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42507;&#42348;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;I&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42507;&#42348;<\/span> will collect information about all <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42329;&#42276;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Vai&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42329;&#42276;<\/span> related research literature &#42507;&#42348; have access to&#42509; some\/most of which &#42507;&#42348; haven&rsquo;t read yet<span class=\"script-vai\"><span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42510;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;period (.)&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42510;<\/span><\/span> When possible &#42507;&#42348; will note the quality\/relevance of it&#42509; as well as links to the documents<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Books\/Theses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>William E Welmers &ndash;&nbsp; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.se\/books?id=yXTdbqvhnaEC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Grammar of Vai<\/a><\/em> (1977) &ndash; the latest grammar analysis made of the &#42329;&#42276; <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42408;&#42389;&#42356;&#42353;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;language&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42408;&#42389;&#42356;&#42353;<\/span> (currently reading)<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>S.W. <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Koelle&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;SW Koelle, author of &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language : together with a Vei-English vocabulary : and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing&amp;lt;\/em&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>Koelle<\/span> &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc2.ark:\/13960\/t49p36g1z\"><em>Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language : together with a Vei-English vocabulary : and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing<\/em><\/a> (1854) &ndash; the first orthography of the &#42329;&#42276; &#42408;&#42389;&#42356;&#42353; (currently reading)<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>S. W. Koelle &ndash; <em>Narrative of an expedition into the Vy country of West Africa, and the discovery of a system of syllabic writing, recently invented by the natives of the Vy tribe<\/em> (1849) &ndash; (unread)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gail Stewart &ndash; <em>The Early Vai Script as Found in the Book of Ndole<\/em> (1972) &ndash; (unread)<\/li>\n<li>Gail Stewart, P.E.H. Hair &ndash; <em>A Bibliography of the Vai Language and Script<\/em> (1969) &ndash; a listing of all the then known references to and analyses of &#42329;&#42276; &#42408;&#42389;&#42356;&#42353;&#42509; both spoken and script from 1594 to 1968<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Momolu Massaquoi &ndash; <em>The Vai People and Their Syllabic Writing<\/em> (1911) &ndash; an article containing both oral history if the &#42329;&#42276;&nbsp;&#42301;&#42276;&#42509; as well as a phonetic chart of the &#42329;&#42276; script as it was written around 1900 and traditions concerning the teaching of the script<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>August Klingenheben &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1155181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Vai Script<\/em><\/a> (1933) &ndash; (unread)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Jones &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/181580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Who Were the Vai?<\/em> <\/a>(1981) &ndash; an investigation into the origins of the &#42329;&#42276; <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42462; &#42424;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;people&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42462; &#42424;<\/span> and &#42408;&#42389;&#42356;&#42353;&#42510;<\/li>\n<li>Konrad Tuscherer &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3172173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Cherokee and Vai: Examining the Origins of the Vai Script<\/em><\/a> (2002) &ndash; an interesting research article about possible Cherokee influences in the creation of the &#42329;&#42276; script<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Mohamed B. Nyei &ndash;<em> A Three Script Literacy Among the Vai: Arabic, English and Vai<\/em> (1981) &ndash; regarding the use of writing among the &#42329;&#42276; &#42462; &#42424; and in which contexts the different writing systems are used<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Andrij Rovenchak, J&aacute;n Ma&#269;utek, Charles Riley &ndash; <em>Distribution of complexities in the Vai script<\/em> (2008) &ndash; a technical study of different complexities of the glyphs and how they compare to other scripts<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Svend Holsoe &ndash; <em>An Early Vai Manuscript from Liberia<\/em> (1976) &ndash; A reprint and new translation of the <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42406;&#42318;&#42408;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&#42406;&#42318;&#42408; &#42397;&#42270;&#42258;, inventor of the Vai script&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42406;&#42318;&#42408;<\/span> manuscript as well as insights into nineteenth century &#42329;&#42276; &#42301;&#42276; customs<span class=\"script-vai\">&#42510;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sites with &#42329;&#42276; script examples<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>British Library &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/collection-items\/documents-showing-the-vai-script\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Documents showing the Vai script<\/a>&#42510;<\/li>\n<li>Cataloging Africana &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogingafricana.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/01\/a-vai-manuscript-from-1913\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Vai manuscript from 1913<\/a>&#42510;<\/li>\n<li>Archives Online at Indiana &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu\/findingaids\/search?smode=simple&amp;rmode=none&amp;style=&amp;brand=general&amp;field1=browse-creator&amp;text1=HolsoeSvendE&amp;browseText=Holsoe%2C+Svend+E.\">Svend Holsoe collections<\/a> &ndash; contains documents from Grand Cape Mount with signatures in &#42329;&#42276; <span class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;&#42360;&#42371; &#42324;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;handwriting&lt;\/div&gt;\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>&#42360;&#42371; &#42324;<\/span>&#42510;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here &#42507;&#42348; will collect information about all &#42329;&#42276; related research literature &#42507;&#42348; have access to&#42509; some\/most of which &#42507;&#42348; haven&rsquo;t read yet&#42510; When possible &#42507;&#42348; will note the quality\/relevance of it&#42509; as well as links to the documents&#42510; Books\/Theses William E Welmers &ndash;&nbsp; A Grammar of Vai (1977) &ndash; the latest grammar analysis made of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andre.mabande.se\/vai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}