1,703 search results for “african simon language” in the Public website
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Simon SimonFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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African languages archives
This collaborative research group (CRG) facilitates the synergies of researchers engaged with African languages and documentation of texts conducted in East Africa, paying particular attention to ‘endangered archives’ and ‘endangered languages’.
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Apps for learning African sign languages
It is our goal to deliver a convenient, enjoyable, learning experience that goes beyond the basics. All of the apps are an initiative of the HANDS! Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies at Leiden University, as part of the Language Socialization in Deaf Families project funded by the Leiden University…
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Simon VerhoevenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Simon HayFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simon KemperFaculty of Humanities
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Simon HellendallFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Simon de GraaffFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Personal experience narratives in three West African sign languages
On the 27th of February, Marta Morgado successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Marta on this achievement!
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Simon Otjes
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simon WillmettsFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Martijn SimonsFaculty of Humanities
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Simone LammertinkLeiden University Libraries
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African Activism at the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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Simone MulderFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simone KootFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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African Studies Centre Leiden Research Programme
The African Studies Centre Leiden’s Research Programme for 2025-2029 is called ‘African Trajectories: Past Dependencies and New Directions’. Building on its former programme, it extends the recognition of Africa’s pivotal role in world affairs. The continent’s global significance has become increasingly…
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African Dynamics
This minor equips students from diverse disciplines with the knowledge and skills to critically engage with and strengthen Africa’s role in a globalised world through integrated and sustainable approaches. It builds on the ambitions of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nations’ Agenda 2030,…
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Simone Keijsers
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Simone MeijerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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Eurafrica: African perspectives, 1917-1970s
How did African actors engage with the idea of Eurafrica?
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Simone LimitiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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African Studies (BA)
Africa is fascinating! In today’s globalised world, the continent plays an increasingly important role in international, social and cultural developments. Would you like to explore the many sides of Africa and its impact on the rest of the world, while also learning one of its languages? Our African…
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African Studies (MA)
The master’s in African Studies combines world-class scholarship with practice-based learning.
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African Studies Centre Leiden
Africa has a population of 1.5 billion people. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to 2.5 billion. The continent’s impact on the global economy, societies but also on the environment, will therefore increase drastically.
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African Studies (MA)
Are you thinking about studying African Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Simone Akerboom
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Elena Solá SimónFaculty of Humanities
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Simone DobbelaarFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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The language of food: documentation and representation of food preparation and culinary culture in Africa and its diasporas
Unlike the predominant and excessive focus on the problems of food production and food insecurity in Africa, this project views African culinary tradition as a vibrant and rich cultural heritage, intertwined with language use.
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony
The languages of the Mbam-et-Inoubou District of the Centre Region of Cameroon have a unique position in Bantu linguistics. Being in between
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First comparative textbook on East African Community law and EU law by Leiden University
Published by Brill Nijhoff and written by leading experts including national judges, academics and practitioners East African Community Law is the first comparative as well as open access textbook on EAC law. The book provides a key resource for the research, teaching, and practice of EAC law. It also…
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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Information Flows along the Central African Republic – DR Congo border
How do Central African refugees navigate through uncertainty in a new and hostile environment in the DR Congo?
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Trans-species perspectives on African Studies
In the last couple of decades an ‘animal turn’ has taken place in the social sciences. This has led to a call to study social issues by including non-human animal perspectives. This Collaborative Research Group thinks it's high time that African Studies joins the chorus of minds that try to contribute…