The Diary of Boima Kiakpomgbo from Mando Town (Liberia): A Quantitative Study of a Vai Text

Authors :: Andrij Rovenchak
Tombekai Sherman
Charles Riley
Source :: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 25:271-287
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2017.
Abstract: We analyse a Liberian text from the first quarter of the twentieth century written in Vai, a Mande language of West Africa, using an indigenous syllabic script. Rank–frequency distributions...

Subjects :: 060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language
History
0602 languages and literature
Ethnology
06 humanities and the arts
Syllabic verse
Mande language
Quarter (United States coin)
Language and Linguistics
Indigenous
West africa

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