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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