GB 0102 MS 380574 - Fula Language Papers of David P Gamble

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GB 0102 MS 380574 1958 Collection (fonds) 1 folder Gamble , David Percy , b 1920 , scholar on the Gambia
David Gamble was employed by the Colonial Office during the late 1940s and 1950s, and his published works include extensive monographs on the Fula, Wolof and Mandinka languages of the Gambia. He has also written extensively on Fula custom and the history of the Gambia, and worked at the Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, during the 1970s and 1980s. The Fula language is spoken in an area from the Gambia to Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Publications: Contributions to a socio-economic survey of the Gambia (Colonial Office Research Department, 1949); Economic Conditions in Two Mandinka Villages (Colonial Office Research Department, 1953); Mandinka Reading Book (1956); The Wolof of Senegambia ... with notes on the Lebu and the Serer (1957); Bibliography of the Gambia (1967); with Louise Sperling, A general bibliography of the Gambia [1979]; The Gambia (c1988); edited, with P E H Hair, Richard Jobson's The discovery of River Gambra (1999).

Donated to SOAS Library by Professor David Arnott in September 1991.

Typescript papers, 1958, of David P Gamble of the Colonial Office on the Fula language, comprising Firdu Fula Grammar, Gambia Fula Verb List, and Fula-English Vocabulary (Gambian dialects).

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English

Database.

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the papers of D W Arnott (Ref: MS 380416).

The three papers were published by the Research Department, Colonial Office, in 1958.

Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Apr 2002 Africa African languages Colloquial language Colonial Office Dialects Gambia Gamble , David Percy , b 1920 , scholar on the Gambia Grammar Languages Lexicography Linguistics Spoken language Vocabularies West Africa

Donated to SOAS Library by Professor David Arnott in September 1991.

Typescript papers, 1958, of David P Gamble of the Colonial Office on the Fula language, comprising Firdu Fula Grammar, Gambia Fula Verb List, and Fula-English Vocabulary (Gambian dialects).

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• anglais

• latin

English

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the papers of D W Arnott (Ref: MS 380416).

Database.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais