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Preserving endangered and unrecorded languages in Busoga

Start - End 
2017 - 2017 (completed)
Type 
Multiresearcher project
Department(s) 
Department of Languages and Cultures
Other institution(s) 
University of Missouri
Makerere University
Research group(s) 
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
Research Focus 
Linguistics
Research Period 
Contemporary
Research Region 
Africa
Research Methodology 
Field research
Additional tags 
Lower Nyole
Bantu linguistics
Busoga
Uganda
Sustainable development goal(s) 

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Abstract

This project aims to document aspects of at least one moribund and previously unrecognised language in Busoga, a kingdom in the east of Uganda.

People

Supervisor(s)

Co-supervisor(s)

External(s)

Michael R. Marlo

University of Missouri

Deo Kawalya

Makerere University
Publications
SDG
Recording newly identified but disappearing languages in Uganda is the only way to be able to 'revitalise' them in a data-driven, evidence-based way in the future.