Tolee: a new Loma video

The 2023 and 2024 Field Methods classes worked with Balla Koevogui, John Dopavogui, and Robert Beavogui, who are all speakers of Guinean Loma. The 2023 class recorded two short videos with Balla Koevogui and John Dopavogui. 

Since then, Isaiah Suchman and Natalie Weber have continued to work with both speakers to annotate the short stories in Löma and to translate them into French and English. 

We are proud to present the second of two videos, now available on the Yale Linguistics youtube channel. In this story, John tells a cautionary tale about why envy is not good. 

Thanks especially to Isaiah Suchman, as well as Balla Koevogui for patiently going through the recording several times with us!