Russian Academy of Science, Moscow The book is the first grammar
description of the newly discovered language of Zialo, spoken by
some 25,000 people in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. The
language belongs to the South-Western group of the Mande
language family. Before 2010, no grammar, article or vocabulary
of Zialo was ever published. The book presents a survey of the
language according to the contemporary standards of language
descriptions. Phonology, morphonology, tonology, morphology and
syntax are analysed, with a specific focus to the syntactic
structure of the language. The book also gives a brief insight
into the linguistic geography of Zialo, its dialectal diversity,
neighbours and language contacts. The description is supported
by over 600 phrasal examples, all of which are fully glossed
according to the Leipzig rules of glossing. All word or phrase
examples throughout the text are fully tone-marked. The grammar
is followed by Appendices including three sample texts in Zialo
with glosses, he