Nina van der Vlugt (°1998) is an FWO-funded PhD student carrying out historical-comparative linguistic research into the origin and development of the Shona languages of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and Mozambique. She obtained her BA and MA in Linguistics from Leiden University (The Netherlands), where she specialized on historical, descriptive, and anthropological linguistics of African languages. Her main research interests lie within the description and historical reconstruction of Bantu languages, with a focus on Eastern and Southern Bantu. She is also a contributor to Brill's Linguistic Bibliography, where she is responsible for the African languages section.
