User:Zeason1/Language selection

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Who I would like to work with: mmakhsu1

1. Mandike

- Language Typology: Two tone
- Regions spoken: Benin, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Ghana
- Indigenous to: Guinea-Bissau, Gambia
- Estimate of pages: 20-25
- Arabic script

2. Passamaquoddy

- Language typology: Polysynthetic
- Regions: Passamaquoddian regions are in what were stolen and renamed to be the regions in the Northeastern US of "Maine" and Canadian province: "New Brunswick"
- Latin script
- Speaker amount: 920
- Estimate of pages: 2.5-5

3. Beja

- Language typology: Subject Object Verb
- Regions: Sudan,Eritrea, and Egypt
- Arabic and Latin Script
- Speaker amount:
- Estimate of pages: 25-30

Citations:

 Belcher, Stephen. Review of Empire of the Mind: New Work in Mande Studies. Research in African Literatures [BLOOMINGTON], vol. 34, no. 4, 2003, pp. 129–44, https://doi.org/10.2979/RAL.2003.34.4.129.

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