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2nd Hybrid Meeting on Cushitic Languages and Linguistics

Date | 5-6 December 2024 Location | Naples Presentation by Maarten Mous: “The history of South Cushitic” (slides). Presentation by Sjef van Lier: “The most diagnostic features in a Somali dialectology: Are they still valid”. Presentation by Ahmed Sosal: “The Status of d’ in Highland East Cushitic: Contact Effects and Internal Development.”

Roots, branches & LHEAf: Multidisciplinary perspectives on East Africa’s early history

Date | 6-8 June 2024 Location | Leiden This conference is about the early history of East African people, their languages and cultures, concluding the Leiden project on the Linguistic History of East Africa. Aiming to correlate our linguistic findings with those of other disciplines, the conference is interdisciplinary and invites researchers from fields such asContinue reading “Roots, branches & LHEAf: Multidisciplinary perspectives on East Africa’s early history”

LUCL-BantUGent workshop: Unravelling Africa’s Early Linguistic History

Date | 17 May 2024 Location | Ghent On Friday 17 May, the LHEAf research team visited Ghent for a joint workshop with BantUGent on the fascinating world of Africa’s early linguistic history. On the program: exploring language contact, diagnosing substrate, and placing linguistic findings in an interdisciplinary context. More information can be found here.

ELDP Language ecology and documentation workshop

Date | 23 February 2024 Location | Berlin Presentation by Maarten Mous: Naming language, language names and “language”. Abstract: My presentation consists of three sections. First I discuss self-names of registers: Ma’á/Mbugu and I analyse terms for in-law languages across the world and youth languages. Second, I analyse the language names of the languages ofContinue reading “ELDP Language ecology and documentation workshop”