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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| storyteller | /xxx | Noun |
| kora | /x | Noun |
| senegalese | xxx/ | Name |
| creole | /x | Noun |
| wolof | /x | Name |
| troubadour | /xx | Noun |
| hausa | /x | Name |
| folktale | /x | Noun |
| dogon | /x | Name |
| shaman | /x | Noun |
| negritude | /xx | Noun |
| malagasy | xx/x | Name |
| trinidadian | /xxxx | Name |
| folklorist | /xx | Noun |
| congo | /x | Name |
| swahili | x/x | Name |
| vodou | /x | Noun |
| gullah | /x | Name |
| chiefdom | /x | Noun |
| musician | x/x | Noun |
| calabash | xx/ | Noun |
| gumbo | /x | Noun |
| kiswahili | /x/x | Name |
| humorist | /xx | Noun |
| poet | /x | Noun |
| ethnographer | x/xx | Noun |
| historian | x/xx | Noun |
| lyricist | /xx | Noun |
| itinerant | x/xx | Adjective |
| chronicler | /xx | Noun |
| rhetorician | xx/x | Noun |
| scribe | / | Noun |
| sings | / | Verb |
| african | /xx | Adjective |
| west | / | Adjective |
| tradition | x/x | Noun |
| role | / | Noun |
| modern | /x | Adjective |
| told | / | Verb |
| old | / | Adjective |
| said | / | Verb |
| caste | / | Noun |
| women | /x | Noun |
| aboriginal | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| aborigines | xx/xx | Noun |
| akan | x/ | Name, Adjective |
| alchemist | /xx | Noun |
| amerindian | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| aristocratic | xxx/x | Adjective |
| artisan | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| artists | /x | Adjective |
| ashkenazic | xx/x | Adjective |
| assamese | /x/ | Name, Adjective |
| doctor | /x | Noun, Verb |
| fetish | /x | Noun |
| hakka | /x | Name, Adjective |
| hawaiian | x/x | Name, Adjective |
| herbalist | /xx | Noun |
| hero | /x | Noun |
| jamaican | x/x | Adjective, Name |
| literati | xx/x | Noun |
| mandarin | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| midwife | /x | Noun, Verb |
| pioneers | xx/ | Verb |
| presbyter | xx/ | Noun |
| saint | / | Noun, Verb |
| samoan | x/x | Name, Adjective |
| sephardic | x/x | Adjective |
| soothsayer | x/x | Noun |
| untouchable | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| yoruba | x/x | Name |
| cloth | / | Noun |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| oh | / | Noun, Verb |
| maypole | /x | Noun, Verb |
| girly | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| cluster | /x | Noun, Verb |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
