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Kate Bellamy: ‘Exciting to put P'urhepecha community in touch with written heritage’ 13 June 2024
Many members of Chicago's P'urhepecha community did not even know they lived a stone’s throw from some of their own historical heritage. Researcher Ka...
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar' 19 March 2024
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguis...
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Children's Storybook ‘Sumak Kichwa Wawa’ 19 September 2023
What do you get when you combine traditional storytelling, new technology, and a whole lot of creative passion? Sumak Kichwa Wawa, an Andean children'...
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine 06 June 2023
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increa...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war 23 January 2023
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’ 26 September 2022
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (Un...
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’ 20 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics ...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers 21 April 2022
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other 31 May 2021
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden Univers...
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’ 09 February 2021
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguis...
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Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden 07 September 2020
Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University, looks back on the 50th edition of the Colloquium of African Languages and Linguis...
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Learning African sign languages via a video app 10 February 2020
For many deaf Ghanaians, Ghanaian Sign Language is their first language. But for more deaf signers to be able to fully participate in society, more si...
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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork 24 January 2020
Descriptions of different languages help us understand what speakers of different languages share worldwide. At the same time, having descriptions of ...
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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics 12 August 2019
Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary sch...
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First pan-African summer school for deaf academics 01 August 2019
Researchers from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the University of Ghana are organising the first-ever pan-African summer scho...