Catalog Librarian for African Languages
Associations:
American Society of Papyrologists
Publications:
"An overview of Bamum phonology and orthography, with an additional focus on character and word frequencies in recent poetry" (with Andrij Rovenchak) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 46:2, 2025, pp. 321-348. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2025-0023
"Cataloging, character sets, and the longue durée." Technicalities, vol. 39:no. 6:12-15 (November/December 2019).
"The diary of Boima Kiakpomgbo from Mando Town (Liberia): a quantitative study of a Vai text." (with Andrij Rovenchak, Tombekai Sherman) Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 25:3, 271-287 (2018).
"Complexity of the Vai script revisited: a frequency study of the syllabary." (with Andrij Rovenchak, Tombekai Sherman) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 11:117-128 (2011).
"Distributions of Complexities in the Vai Script." (with Andrij Rovenchak and Ján Mačutek) Glottometrics 18: (2009).
"Contributions Toward a Dictionary of Vai." Mande Languages and Linguistics: 2nd International Conference, St. Petersburg : (2008).
"Report on work with the Bamum script in Cameroon." (with Bamum Scripts & Archives Project) (2006a).
"Towards the Encoding of the Bamum script in the UCS." (with Bamum Scripts & Archives Project) (2006b).
Skills and Services:
Adobe InDesign, Expert User, Language Identification, Language: French (fluent), Language: Mandinka (fluent), Language: Swahili (basic), Language: Wolof (fluent), Standards Development, Transliteration
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