A reference corpus of the Malian Sign Language/Langue des Signes Malienne (LSM)
The reference corpus of the Malian Sign Language/Langue des Signes Malienne (LSM) is a collection of LaSiMAMalian Sign Language recorded in Bamako and Mopti. Recordings were made between 2007 and 2009. The project was led by Victoria Nyst.
Data elicited covers spontaneous narratives and dialogues, semi-spontaneous discourse in response to cartoons, picture-based tasks and lexical elicitation. Some of the recorded sign language is not LaSiMAMalian Sign Language, the Malian variety of ASLAmerican Sign Language or a contact form of both. Recordings took place at tea groups of the Deaf in absence of the hearing researcher. Older recordings done by third parties were added to the collection.
The project also generated a basic grammar and video vocabulary.
| Language | Malian Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size |
20 hours or discourse
133 recording files 1541 lemmas 14000 tokens |
| Participants |
63 participants
60 Deaf, 3 hearing 35–66 years old 17 female, 45 male, 1 not specified From Bamako and Mopti |
| Metadata Format | .xls (Microsoft Excel), ELAR HTML |
| Translation | French, size unknown |
| Annotation | Partially glossed |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Restricted access requires confirmed registration |
| Webpages |
Project page: http://www.africansignlanguages.org/downloads/malian-sign-language-corpus/ 
Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/c7ce7509-964a-4666-a3de-5c6bc1b69b15
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0001-EBE1-8
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| Institutions |
Leiden University
Institut des Langues Abdoulaye Barry |
| Publications |
Nyst (2008)
Nyst (2010) |
Cite as
Nyst, Victoria. 2010. Un Corpus de Reference de la Langues des Signes Malienne. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0001-EBE1-8. Accessed on [insert date here].
Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Free conversation |
|---|---|
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 16 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/index.php?name=SO_4cceef36-2c58-4e39-9a4d-5c48598d9f27&pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Conversation
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| Task | Lexical elicitation |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 4 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/index.php?name=SO_4cceef36-2c58-4e39-9a4d-5c48598d9f27&pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Elicitation
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References
Primary references
- Victoria Nyst (2008). "Documenting an Endangered Sign Language: Constructing a Corpus of Langue des Signes Malienne (CLaSiMa)". In: Proceedings of the LREC2008 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora (Marrakech, Morocco). Ed. by Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Thomas Hanke, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Inge Zwitserlood. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 145-149.
- Victoria Nyst (2010). "Sign languages in West Africa". In: Sign Languages - A Cambridge language survey. Ed. by Diane Brentari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511712203.019.
This entry was last modified on 24 March 2025.