Sereer Grammar

Serer a language of the Senegambian branch of Niger–Congo spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in The Gambia.[1] It is the principal language of the Serer people.

Getting started

The handout provided by MediaWiki is below:

• MediaWiki Handbook

In addition to the handbook, a great way to learn how to format Wiki is by poking around Wikipedia, looking for interesting ideas, and clicking the edit button next to them. This is how I figured out how to create sortable lists, for example.

Another question is how we will generate interlinear glosses. The table environment is probably our best bet. This is how most LaTeX glossing packages work.

Ancillary pages

• Serer lexicon

• Recordings and transcriptions

Upload recordings and annotations here.

• Individual session wordlists

This is where wordlists for individual elicitation sessions can be uploaded and checked to avoid redundant work.

• Older pages

- Bari grammar (old main page) - Recordings and transcriptions (Bari) - Bari lexicon

Phonology

Serer words are made up of sounds called phonemes. There are many phonemes in Serer.

Phonological inventory

A tentative consonant inventory of Serer:

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal	Pharyngeal
Nasal
Stop	voiceless
	voiced
	implosive
Fricative
Liquid
Glide

A tentative vowel inventory of Bari:

			Front	Central	Back
High
High-mid
Mid
Open

Phonotactics

Serer syllable structure is also very interesting.