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Susu is an SOV language, Poss-N, N-D, generally suffixing, non-pro-drop, wh-in-situ, with no agreement affixes on the verb, no noun classes, no gender, and with a clitic plural marker which attaches to the last element of the NP (N or D, typically), but does not co-occur with numerals. It has no definite or indefinite articles.
Their language, called Sosokhoui or Sosoxui by native speakers, serves as a major trade language along the Guinean coast, particularly in its southwest, including the capital city of Conakry. It belongs to the Niger-Congo family of languages. [7] In the Susu language, "Guinea" means woman and this is the derivation for the country's name. [8]
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The Kankan variety of the language was used by Solomana Kante for the development of N'Ko, a standardized unified written Manding language, which is increasingly used in literacy education and publishing books and newspapers in Guinea and neighboring countries. [4] [5] Susu (17.7%) is mostly spoken in Guinée maritime, where the capital is ...
A susu or sou-sou or osusu or asue (also known as a merry-go-round, [1] Partner, or Pawdna in Jamaica; [2] sol in Haiti;, [3] san in Dominican Republic, [4] and Njangi in Cameroon [5]) is a form of rotating savings and credit association, a type of informal savings club arrangement between a small group of people who take turns by throwing hand as the partners call it.
Susu may refer to: Susu people or Soussou, an ethnic group in Guinea; Susu language, language spoken by this ethnic group; Sosso Empire, a twelfth-century Takrur kingdom of West Africa; Susu (savings), an informal savings account practiced in the Caribbean; Susu account, a saving scheme for poor people in Ghana; SUSU may refer to:
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The Sosso Empire, also written as Soso or Susu, or alternatively Kaniaga, was kingdom of West Africa that originated as a vassal of the Ghana Empire before breaking away and conquering their former overlords.