Suo

Suo is a language in the center east of Cameroon. They initially approached SIL in 2017, asking for help in developing their langauge. I was involved with several others in the initial workshops to help develop an alphabet which happened just before Covid. Later I was the primary linguist working on the project, with much of my focus being on the development of a dictionary and making changes to the alphabet as needed. In my dictionary work I used FLEx extensively. Currently there are translators working on Bible translation in Suo.

There is a draft version of the dictionary online at https://www.webonary.org/suo/. The descriptions and instructions are all in both French and English, although the dictionary itself is just Suo / French.

The following is a link to a video about a celebration presenting the project: Video (in French, but subtitled in English) 

Note: because of changes in spelling decisions and writing in English and French, there have been other spellings of the language name - Sso, Suə, and Swo.

Here are some of our updates that described my work with Suo:

November 2024: Suo dictionary, i-DELTA, and family 

March 2024: Suo survey, discourse workshop, and on the home front.

   February 2024: Suo dictionary and  family

September 2023:  Swo / Suo: spelling changes, presentation, and dictionary (Note: has a link to non-subtitled video, see link above)

    May 2019: Swo document revision trip, end of school (and of boys in elementary school)

    April 2019: Final Swo participatory workshop (orthography revisions and teaching how to teach), summer plans of US trip

 December 2018: "Now I Understand" - learning at Swo workshops and i-DELTA, Christmas

  July 2018: Swo workshops (including interested kids) and summer family visitors

February 2018: Two contrasting workshops - Lefa and Swo, other activities: retreats & field trip, Kendall 50th birthday

September 2017:  How do you write an unwritten language? (Swo)