Dr. Ndokobai Dadak is a Linguistics consultant with SIL International. His work focuses on language documentation and description and language development. He received his PhD from Leiden University on 2021 for his grammar of the Cuvok language of Cameroon, and this work was supported by a grant from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme.
Awards
Individual Graduate Scholarship 0267: Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP), SOAS London/Leiden University, August 2014-August 2017.
Manuscripts and papers
– Précis d’orthographe de la langue pana, révisé en juin 2015, SIL-Cameroon
– Esquisse phonologique du mbudum, SIL-Cameroon 2014
– Esquisse orthographique du mbudum, SIL Cameroon 2012
– Reduplication in two Central Chadic languages of Cameroon: Case of Mafa and Cuvok languages, the 7th World Conference of African Linguistics, University of Buea, Cameroon, August 20-24, 2012.
– Possession in Cuvok, paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Ghana, Kumasi, August 8-10, 2011
– Verbal extensions of Cuvok, paper presented at the BSC international Symposium, Yaoundé, April 7-10, 2010
– Mbudum story book, SIL 2009
– Mbudum writer’s guide, SIL 2009
– Bum Orthography Statement, Robert Hedinger and Ndokobai Dadak, SIL-Cameroon 2005
– Enquête sociolinguistique de la langue bakoko, Bitjaa Kody et Ndokobai, 2005.
Dissertations
– Grammaire cuvok : une langue tchadique centrale du Cameroun, LUCL Leiden University, the Netherlands. PhD in Humanities (Linguistics), June 16, 2021, LOT Publications, Amsterdam
– Morphologie verbale du Cuvok, une langue tchadique du Cameroun, FALSH, Université de Yaoundé, Mémoire de DEA, 2006 121p
– Principes phonologiques et orthographiques du Cuvok, 116p, FALSH, Université de Yaoundé, Mémoire de Maitrise, 2003