https://www.kapchits.online/en/somalistics/ Recent content in Somalistics on Kapchits.Online Hugo en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kapchits.online/en/somalistics/lexicon/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kapchits.online/en/somalistics/lexicon/ <p>Lexical work occupies a distinct place in Dr. Kapchits&rsquo; somalistics. Alongside the study of grammar and paremiology, he has assembled and published glossaries of semantic fields that had previously been described only in outline — above all the terminology of kinship, and the archaic vocabulary of fractions preserved in traditional texts.</p> <h2 id="kinship-terminology">Kinship Terminology</h2> <p>The fullest of these glossaries is the corpus of Somali kinship terms compiled by G. L. Kapchits together with V. Ya. Porkhomovsky and published in the Semito-Hamitic Festschrift (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2008, pp. 155–160). The corpus comprises 34 to 38 terms.</p> https://www.kapchits.online/en/somalistics/videos/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.kapchits.online/en/somalistics/videos/ <p>Alongside the academic work, a large part of Dr. Kapchits&rsquo; professional life was spent in broadcasting — and much of what he wrote about Somalia was addressed not to scholars but to listeners. This page gathers what belongs to that side of the record.</p> <h2 id="radio">Radio</h2> <p><strong>Somali service of Radio Moscow, 1967–1994.</strong> Twenty-seven years of daily work in Somali, as announcer and translator, for an audience that would have noticed any carelessness at once. The section was closed in 1994.</p>