Here is my initial text about Kabiye. Note that I haven't written anything
about the culture, as there are not a lot of texts about Kabiye on
internet. (And of course, feel free to fix my English, add whatever you
think is relevant etc.)
* * *
'''Kabye''' (also known as Kabiye, Kabre, Cabrai or Lanmba) is the
name for
people who speak the language of the same name in the north central
mountains and northern plains of Togo, West Africa. The Kabye are primarily
known for farming and cultivation of harsh, dry, infertile lands of Togo.
They grow cotton, millet and yams.
Kabye people also live in northwestern Benin near the Togolese border. The
[Logba or Lugba people of Benin are closely related to the Kabye. Broadly
defined and subgroups included, the Kabiye people are the second largest
ethnic group after Ewe people and they dominate the government and military
of Togo.
Kabiye is an Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in northern Togo by
approximately one million of speakers. Throughout the 20th century, there
was extensive emigration to the centre and south of [[Togo]] and also to
Ghana and Benin. According to the Lomé statistics office, Kabiye speakers
made up over 23% of the Togolese population in 1999.
Kabiye is one of two national languages of Togo (along with Ewe). In the
Togolese context, "national language" currently means that the language is
promoted in national media and, in the formal education sector, as an
optional exam subject in grades 9 and 10.
(This text has been compiled from the Wikipedia articles Kabye people
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabye_people> and Kabiye language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabiye_language>.)
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone willing to write a blog post about Kabiye?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
I informed the community about the approval. Some
configuration details
are
still missing, I'll file the bug when they
have added them.
2017-02-28 19:17 GMT+01:00 Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen(a)sil.org>rg>:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've received the evaluation of a Kabiye language expert, Prof. Dr.
Cecile
> Padayodi. She writes:
>
> "I read a few of the articles and as a mother tongue speaker of the
Kabiye
> language and also a linguist and a
translator, I find that the
orthography
> has been applied quite consistently. There
are a few inconsistencies
here
> and there, but that should not prevent the
reader from understanding
what is
> being said."
>
> She sent more details on individual words but unless you insist, I won't
> send it all.
>
> As I'm currently in rural Tanzania on a consulting trip with a full
> schedule and unreliable internet access, I would ask one of you to take
the
> necessary steps to approve kbp:wp - thanks!
>
> Best wishes,
> Oliver
>
>
>
> On 08-Feb-17 20:09, Milos Rancic wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen(a)sil.org>
> wrote:
>
> I've made the request [1] for a wikipedia in Kabiye [2] eligible. It's a
> Niger-Congo language spoken by 975,000 people in Togo [3] (plus a few
more
> in Benin and Ghana). What is more, it's
been active on the Incubator
for a
> while [4] and may even be ready for approval
[5]. I've started to put my
> feelers out for an independent scholar to verify the content (no leads
> yet,
> though). If I don't hear a 'no', I'll intensify my search for a
scholar
/
> Kabiye language expert after the 7-day
deadline, i.e. from 16 February.
>
>
> [
1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_
languages/Wikipedia_Kabye
cat=0&title=Wp/kbp&wiki=incubatorwiki
Thanks, Oliver! I would encourage every LangCom member with enough of
Wikimedia experience and enough linguistic confidence to follow Oliver
and myself in making eligible obviously valid requests.
Oliver, there is one more page which needs an update [1], but I will
for sure check always check if you forgot it or not.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
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