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== Wolof == | == Wolof == | ||
| + | - Morphological Typology: agglutinative? | ||
| + | - Number of speakers: 5-10 million | ||
| + | - Region: West Africa (Snegal, Mauritania, Gambia) | ||
| + | - Other languages used by speakers: maybe French and Arabic | ||
| + | - Orthography: primarily Latin, but also Arabic and Garay | ||
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| + | - Sources: There are over 1,000 pages written in Wolof on wikipedia. There should be no trouble finding corpora | ||
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| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language Wikipedia] | ||
Revision as of 14:51, 24 January 2023
Athena Basu's Language Selection Lab
I'd like to work with Rowan Orlijan-Rhyne and possibly a third person who has a deeper linguistics background.
Wolof
- Morphological Typology: agglutinative?
- Number of speakers: 5-10 million
- Region: West Africa (Snegal, Mauritania, Gambia)
- Other languages used by speakers: maybe French and Arabic
- Orthography: primarily Latin, but also Arabic and Garay
- Sources: There are over 1,000 pages written in Wolof on wikipedia. There should be no trouble finding corpora
