Address Book (Taamanseelu Kitaaboo)
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| Title | Address Book (Taamanseelu Kitaaboo) |
| Author or Owner | Nimbaly Thiam (author), Abdou Karim Thiam (owner) |
| Subject | Contacts, Addresses, Telephone Numbers, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Paris, Portugal |
| Content | The manuscript is an address book of late Nimbaly Thiam, the father of the current owner, Abdou Karim Thiam. The phone numbers in the manuscript are no longer in use as the text is over 40 years old. Some of the people mentioned are from Guinea-Bissau, and others live in Senegal, France, and Portugal. The phone numbers are generally spelled out in Mandinka Ajami. However, in some cases it is the French reading of the numbers that is written in Mandinka Ajami. For example, 25-24-43 on page 1 are spelled out in Mandinka Ajami as they would normally be read in French. Other phone numbers are directly translated in Mandinka using the Mandinka numbering system. Occasionally, some phone numbers are written with Western numerals. The manuscript was digitized in the home of the owner (Abdou Karim Thiam) in the neighborhood of Kandialang in Ziguinchor, Senegal. |
| Genre | Prose |
| Language | Mandinka |
| Script | Mandinka Ajami |
| Manuscript condition | The manuscript is slightly faded due to its age |
| Type | Handwritten |
| Publisher | Unpublished |
| Provenance | Ziguinchor, Senegal |
| Source Reference | British Library: https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1042-4-3; Ngom, Fallou, Castro, Eleni, & Diakité, Ablaye (2018). BU African Ajami Library: EAP 1042. Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal: https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/28996 |
| Access condition and copyright | These materials are subject to copyright and are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For use, distribution or reproduction beyond these terms, contact Professor Fallou Ngom (fngom@bu.edu). |
| Contributors | Fallou Ngom, Ablaye Diakite, Bala Saho, Ousmance Cisse, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Rebecca Shereikis, Marie Binta Badji, Eric Schmidt, Alison Parker, Shawn Provencal, and Mark Lewis. |
| Required citation information | Fallou Ngom (PI), Ablaye Diakite, Bala Saho, Ousmane Cisse, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Rebecca Shereikis, and other contributors. 2022. “Address Book.” https://sites.bu.edu/nehajami/the-four-languages/mandinka/mandinka-manuscripts/taamanseelu-kitaaboo/ |
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