Lamberti's Maps of Somali Dialects and the Current Socio-Linguistic Situation in South Somalia

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A study of Somali dialectology and its application to the language analysis of asylum seekers. The typescript bears no date; since it refers to an applicant who left Somalia in 2007, it cannot be earlier than that year — the dating given here is approximate.

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In 1981 Marcello Lamberti undertook a scale research work in Somalia which resulted in a series of pioneering publications on Somali dialects. In “The linguistic situation in the Somali Democratic Republic” (1984), “Map of Somali dialects in the Somali Democratic Republic” (1986) and “Die Somali-Dialekte” (1986) he drew, as justly mentioned by Andrzej Zaborski, “a clear picture of dialect differentiation and dialect spread of the Somali language.”

Somali-Dialects on Kapchits.Online

Lamberti's Maps of Somali Dialects and the Current Socio-Linguistic Situation in South Somalia

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