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Department of African Languages

The Department of African languages exists since 1965.
It deals mainly with the languages of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research focuses

  • documentation and description of African languages
  • historical linguistics, areal typology and microtypology
  • sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, language contact, translation studies

Language families, language groups and languages currently dealt with

  • Afroasiatic, including
    • Chadic, including
      • Kotoko
      • Hausa
    • Semitic, including
      • Soqotri
  • Bantu, including
    • Swahili
    • Zulul
    • Dabida
  • Mande, including
    • Bamana
    • Susu
    • Kla-Dan
    • Kpelle
    • Kono
    • Ngen
  • Kwa, including
    • Ewe
    • Akebu
    • Ginyanga
  • Atlantic, including
    • Pulaar-Fulfulde (Fula)
  • Dogon

Edited

  • “Language in Africa” Journal (since 2020)
  • “Fundamentals of African linguistics” (1997–2018)
  • “Studies in the languages of Africa” (2006–2016)

Upcoming events

  • Panels on African linguistics at 15th International African Studies Conference, May 24–28, 2021

Projects in progress

“Languages of West Africa: description and comparative analysis” (supported by RSCF)

Contact

Russia, 125009, Moscow, Bolshoy Kislovskiy per. 1/12
office 35
E-mail: africa (at) iling-ran.ru

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Researchers

Andrey Shluinsky

Deputy Director of the Institute of Linguistics, Head of the Department of African languages
PhD (2005)

Viktor Porkhomovsky

Chief Researcher
PhD, Dr.habil., Prof.

Maria Konoshenko

Senior Researcher
PhD

Nadezhda Makeeva

Senior Researcher
PhD

Irina Ryabova

Senior Researcher
PhD

Maria Kosogorova

Researcher
Ph.D.

Funded by research projects

Margarita Ivanova

Research Assistant (funded by research project № 17-78-20071)

Tatyana Korol

Research Assistant (funded by research project № 17-78-20071)

Victoria Pozdnyakova

Research Assistant (funded by research project No. 17-78-20071, Russian Science Foundation)

In Memoriam

Irina Aksyonova (1931–2009)

Aaron Dolgopolsky (1930–2012)

Antonina Koval (1938–2017)

Natalya Okhotina (1927–1999)

Irina Toporova (1940–2015)

Viktor Vinogradov (1939–2016)

Alfred Zhurinskiy (1938–1991)

Former researchers

Tatyana Mamonova

Kirill Prokhorov

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