Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte - Onderzoeksportaal

Preserving endangered and unrecorded languages in Busoga

Begin - Einde 
2017 - 2017 (afgewerkt)
Type 
Multiresearcher project
Vakgroep(en) 
Vakgroep Talen en Culturen
Andere instituten 
University of Missouri
Makerere University
Onderzoeksgroep(en) 
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
Onderzoeksgebied 
Linguistics
Tijdsperiode 
Contemporary
Land/Regio 
Africa
Onderzoeksmethode 
Field research
Trefwoorden 
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.

Onderzoekers

Promotor(en)

Co-promotor(en)

Externe medewerkers

Michael R. Marlo

University of Missouri

Deo Kawalya

Makerere University
Publicaties
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.