The Small BANG

The Small BANG

The Small Bang is a European Research Council funded project dedicated to investigating the origins of a language and population isolate spoken among the Dogon languages and peoples of Mali.

The project is hosted by the Department of Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (LLACAN) at the French research institute CNRS in Paris.

For more information and to express interest in joining or collaborating with the project, please contact PI Abbie Hantgan at ahantgan AT gmail DOT com.

Investigating the origins of the Bangime language and Bangande people

photo credit: Adama Dicko – Bounou, Mali 2021
The research is being funded by a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) grant number 101045195.
logo credit: Magali Sansonetti, Paris, France 2022