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| − | ==Partner Selection==
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| − | Preferred Lab Partner: SaengMoung(Jacob) Park
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| − | ==Language Preference==
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| − | *Twi
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| − | *Wolof
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| − | *Ndebele
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| − | ==Twi==
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| − | ==Wolof==
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| − | Cheikh M. Bamba Dione of the University of Bergen, Norway, describes Wolof as an agglutinative language characterized by a large number of phonemes. The language's verbal morphology has both inflection and derivational characteristics. These characteristics are evidenced by the presence of several distinct suffixes in the language. Unlike many other languages spoken in West Africa, Wolof is not a tonal language. The ISO code for the language is ISO 639-3 wol
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| − | Wolof is widely spoken in Senegal and the majority of its speakers are Wolof People(40%). The language is also spoken by other Senegalese as their second language. Wolof has several dialects that vary both geographically and between rural and urban areas.
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| − | There are multiple resources available online written in Wolof. These include the translated bible, several short stories, and dictionaries.
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| − | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/572_Paper.pdf
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