Her talk will focus on the connections between language, culture, and identity drawing on her research with the Nabit speaking community.

Robyn is completing a Master’s degree in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. Robyn's Master's research investigates the cultural considerations that influence people when they make decisions about language use, which is grounded in her work with the Nabdam community in northern Ghana where she helped Nabit speakers to develop an alphabet for their previously unwritten language.

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