Names on the Coast
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Names on the Coast

Audio22 min Tanji, West CoastMandinka

What the settlements were called before, and who remembers.

Coastal place names frequently describe the land rather than the people on it — a rock, a bend, a stand of trees.

Erosion has removed several of the features the names describe, leaving the word without its source.

Eleven villages were recorded before the last speakers who remember the reasoning are gone.

Photographs

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Names on the Coast — photograph 1
Names on the Coast — photograph 2
Names on the Coast — photograph 3

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