What? BantUGent research seminar
When? 28 November 2025
Where? Room 3.30 (Camelot), Blandijn
Time: 10.00
Time: 10.00
Alena Witzlack Makarevich (Bremen University)
“Documentation and description of the linguistic repertoires of the Kusua of Semuliki Forest“
In this talk Alena presents a recently launched language documentation and description project on the endangered Kusua language (D.22) spoken by a group of some 150 forest foragers. The group has been resettled multiple times in the last 30 years and currently resides in two settlements in the Bundibugyo district of western Uganda. In addition to providing the overview of the sociolinguistic situation the talk will present some tools and techniques the team adopted to manage this large-scale documentation initiative.
