Bedik are a small ethnic minority, comprised of about 3500 individuals living in villages located in the mountains of eastern Senegal. The group represented here are the Bedik individuals of the rural community Bandafassi. Along with the Bassaris, the Napens and the Konyagi, they comprise the Tenda group. Bedik is a language belonging to the Mande group of the Niger-Congo language family.This deposit contains the first description and documentation of Bedik, a highly endangered language. The Bedik community would like to preserve and document their language and culture, so a collection of annotated texts based on recordings of speech in various genres and cultural contexts, and a first dictionary of around 3000 entries have been created.

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