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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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*Kikamba
 
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==Twi==
 
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==Wolof==
 
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==== Morphology ====
 
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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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==== About the Language ====
 
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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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==== Resources ====
 
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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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== Kikamba ==
 
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==== Morphology ====
 
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Kikamba is an agglutinative language that forms its words from the morphomes using both prefixes and suffixes. Kikamba also is tonal, inflectional and uses a class system or a class gender. The ISO code for the language is ISO 639-3: kam
 
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==== About the Language ====
 
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Kikamba Bantu language is spoken by the Kamba people who mainly reside in Kenya but also are spread out in Tanzania and Uganda. The language has approximately 3.9 million native speakers from the Kamba tribe.
 
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It should be fairly easy to find resources on Kikamba because there are several texts available online in Kikamba including the translated Bible.
 
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https://www.scirp.org/pdf/JDAIP_2019102115545311.pdf
 
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[[Category:sp22_students]], [[Category:Twi]], [[Category:Wolof]], [[Category:Kikamba]],
 

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