We have only worked on a few (northern) Dogon languages to date. A number of grammatical features that may be of general interest are discussed in the sections below. The idea is to give first-time or incidental users an initial summary of the most interesting features of these languages. Those who wish to follow up can find further detail in the unpublished grammar drafts on the "Manuscripts" page of this website (though they need much editing, and a little follow-up fieldwork), and in the published Jamsay grammar.
Of particular interest to general typology are "syntactic tonology of NP" and "relative clauses," which should be read together in that order.
The discussions that are up (see below) range from the skeletal to the relatively comprehensive, others will be added in the coming months. We will update and add to all of them as usable data on additional Dogon languages become available, primarily from the fieldwork of project members (who are currently working on Tommo-So and Mombo).
Unlike the rest of this website and the grammar drafts, these discussions contain limited exemplification and do not use any phonetic font. (This should make it easier for users to copy and paste.) In the Dogon forms that are given, {O E} represent [-ATR] vowels. Tones are not marked by diacritics, but where relevant they are given in parentheses, with {...} indicating stem-wide tone contours, <...> indicating single-syllable contour tones, and e.g. LH without brackets indicating bisyllabic with low-toned syllable followed by high-toned syllable.