March 13: Word Collection Day #5

Good progress was made today, especially considering that it was Friday and people were tired from so many hours of intellectual work all week long. The total after five days of word collecting is 6,240 "raw words" (meaning that duplicates are included). Most likely there are at least 4,000 unique words in all of that.



Group photo: Bissa Barka RWC workshop participants

I leave for Ouagadougou (the capital city) tomorrow morning. Pam and Ernest will continue to coach the group along to what I'm sure will be a fine finish, as the group picked up the pace today so that it now looks possible that they will complete all but the Grammar section of the questionnaire, and several groups have opted to collect information on that section in the context of a much smaller group composed of one or more linguists and a handful of native speakers.