“Ask the Experts”

The individuals listed below have expressed an interest in and a willingness to respond to e-mail questions about specific languages. Please feel free to e-mail questions to any of these individuals about their language(s) of expertise. Be aware, however, that this service is completely voluntary, and the response time and detail of the answer may depend on the expert's time. In addition, users of this page are expected to show respect and proper etiquette when asking the volunteer experts for help. The LCTL Project takes no responsibility for the questions or answers.

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Akan (Twi)

Erika Eichholzer : eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Literature
  • Teaching material

Albanian

Alexander Murzaku amurzaku@cse.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Natural language processing
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Lexicology
  • Lexicography
  • Morphology
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Sociolinguistics

Enkelena Shockett (Qafleshi) : enkelena@yahoo.com Areas of expertise:

  • Socialist realism
  • Albanian Modernist Writers
  • Translated Albanian literature
  • Albanian Grammar
  • Teaching materials

Arabic

Karima Benremouga : kbenremouga@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Modern Standard Arabic
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Teaching material
  • Algerian, Egyptian and Gulf dialects

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Regional dialects of Arabic (esp. dialects in the Gulf region)
  • Arabization / adaptation of foreign terms (esp. technology, industry)

ASL (American Sign Language)

Claude E. Mauk : cemauk@pitt.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Sociolinguistics

Assyrian

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Azeri

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com


Baluch

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Basque

Brad Williams : bwill17@gmail.com

Belarusian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Bosnian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Lexicology
  • Lexicography
  • Morphology
  • Natural language processing
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Historical linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Curriculum
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Structure
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Language politics

Braj Bhasha

Ali Taqi : ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:
  • Teaching Materials
  • History
  • Literature

Breton

Steve Hewitt : s.hewitt@unesco.org

Bulgarian

Tsvetelina Yordanova : yordanovats@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language history and use
  • Comparative and historical linguistics
  • Vocabulary; colloquial speech & slang
  • Grammar
  • History, literature and culture
  • Folklore
  • Translation

Burmese

John Okell: jo@soas.ac.uk

Justin Watkins : justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk


Catalan

Antoni Brosa : abrosa@pie.xtec.es

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Morphology
  • Phonetics
  • Vocabulary

Llorenç Comajoan : lcomajoa@middlebury.edu

Areas of expertise:

Cebuano

Marina Hamoy: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching/pedagogy
  • Culture orientation
  • Verb morphology
  • Pronunciation
  • OPI using the ILR scale
  • Insular dialects of Cebuano
  • Available teaching materials
  • Reading materials
  • Curriculum/materials development
  • Program design/development
  • Translation

Chamorro

Katherine Aguon : kbaguon@ite.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Available teaching materials

Chinese-Mandarin

Mitchell B. Brewer : mitch269@aol.com

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer : tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Metalinguistic development
  • Second language acquisition

Li-Jen Kuo : lijenkuo.niu@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Metalinguistic development

Y.C. Li : yli@sec.lang.hawaii.edu

Zhenyi Li : zheli@itu.cc.jyu.fi

Other dialects:
  • Shanghainese Suzhou (Suchow)
  • Hangzhou (Hangchow)

Scott McGinnis : scott.g.mcginnis4.civ@mail.mil

Areas of expertise:
  • Second language acquisition
  • Language pedagogy
  • Language testing
  • Program design

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Weiping Wu : wwpclc@cuhk.edu.hk

    Other dialects:
  • Southern Fukiense (Minnan, Chaouzhou)
  • Cantonese

Bu Yuan : yuan_bu@hotmail.com

Croatian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Lexicology
  • Lexicography
  • Morphology
  • Natural language processing
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Historical linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Curriculum
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Structure
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Language politics

Danish

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Dari

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Druze

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Dutch

Antonius Broos : tonbroos@umich.edu

Grada Schadee : gradars@globalxs.nl


Estonian

Anne Tamm : anne_tamm@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Semantics, especially tense-aspect-mood
  • Morphology especially case marking, partitive
  • Lexicon
  • Teaching material
  • Computational applications (lexical databases, lexicography, speech synthesis)
  • Language contact, change, variation
  • http://www.dipfilmod.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-184.html

Ewondo

(Beti-Bulu-Fang Group, Cameroon)

Erika Eichholzer : eeichholzer@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Literature
  • Teaching material


Fante

Kwesi Addae : ADFNA@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Syntax
  • Teaching material

Finnish

Tiina Haapakoski : tiina.haapakoski@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Dialects
  • Etymology
  • Vocabulary
  • Available teaching material

Daniel Karvonen : karvo001@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Teaching Finnish as a second language
  • Phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Morphology
  • Etymology
  • Pronunciation

Johanna Laakso : johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at

Areas of expertise:
  • Structure, history and origins of Finnish
  • Historical-comparative analysis of Finno-Ugric lannguages

Börje Vähämäki : borje.vahamaki@utoronto.ca

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Morphology
  • Pronunciation
  • History of Finnish
  • Linguistic approaches to Finnish


Galician

Kathleen March : Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu

Georgian

Mr. Kim Braithwaite : kbtrans@cox.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Georgian language, history, and culture

Nona Mozer : NMOZER@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
  • history and culture

Ghomala (Grassfields, West - Cameroon)

J. Seraphin Kamdem : jseraphink@yahoo.com

Greek

Theano Yerasimou : yera0001@umn.edu


Hausa

Roxana Ma Newman : rmnewman@indiana.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Lexicography
  • Language teaching and pedagogy
  • Linguistics

Hawaiian

Puakea Nogelmeier : puakea@hawaii.edu

Hebrew

Rutie Adler : radler@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • All levels, styles, purposes

Gila Ansell Brauner - gilaa@jafi.org

Dina Ripsman Eylon : dina.eylon@utoronto.ca

Sima Gottesfeld : simagot@yahoo.com

Aviva Kadosh : akadosh@bjela.org

Areas of expertise:
  • Community teaching
  • Early childhood teaching

Adina Newberg : adina@rrc.edu

Or Rogovin : rogovin@u.washington.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Linguistics
  • Literature
  • Humanistic studies

Tirzah Rom : trom@rrc.edu

Janis Smith : jsmith@rrc.edu

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Naama Zahavi-Ely : nxzaha@wm.edu

Hebrew (Ancient / Biblical)

Hélène Dallaire : helene.dallaire@denverseminary.edu

Paul Overland : poverlan@ashland.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Hebrew and SLA Pedagogy
  • Communicative Pedagogy of Classical Languages

Hindi

Sanjeev Jain : skjain@irdaonline.org

Areas of expertise:
  • Indian culture
  • Modern Hindi literature
  • Travelogues
  • Meditation & life development

Rajesh Kumar : drajeshk@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Grammar and usages
  • Language teaching
  • Indian culture
  • Teaching pedagogy

Rachel Lileet : lileet@hindistudies.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Pedagogy
  • http://www.hindistudies.com

Anil Shukla padmaja.shukla@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Indian Literature (both Hindi and English)
  • Travel
  • Hindi Films and music

Nidhi Mehrotra : nidhimehrotra@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Grammar
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Culture

Arun Prakash : aprakashhindi@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Program establishment K-12
  • Learning material
  • Hinduism and Culture of India

Ali Taqi : ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:
  • Teaching Materials
  • Pedaogy
  • History
  • Literature
  • Lexicography
  • Culture

Jyotsna Vaid : jxv@psyc.tamu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Word recognition studies

Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi : warsimj@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Computational linguistics
  • Language teaching
  • Communication studies
  • Sociolinguistics

Hungarian

Jeff Harlig : jeff.harlig@sa.ucsb.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Available teaching materials
  • Pedagogy
  • Structure
  • Tense and aspect
  • Sociolinguistics

Eric Hood : grunt@skylands.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Available teaching materials

Peter Vajk : vajk@ix.netcom.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Hurrian

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com


Icelandic

Elisabet Eir Cortes : elisabet@ling.su.se

Jona E. Hammer : hammer@duq.edu

Irish

S. Breandán Ó hUallacháin : sbohuallachain@hotmail.com

Thomas W. Ihde : thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Teaching materials

Nancy Stenson : stenson@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Structure of Irish Language
  • Learning Tools
  • Languages in Contact

Italian

Khadar Ali : kali@hct.ac.ae

Areas of expertise:
  • OPI interviewer


Michael Farina : michael.farina@yale.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Technology in Teaching
  • Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
  • Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL)
  • Communicative Homework
  • Available Teaching Materials
  • High School and College Study Abroad Programs
  • Majoring in Italian
  • Italian Culture

Rita Grassato : rtgrsst@hotmail.it

Brittany Corbucci : brittany.corbucci@gmail.com

Marcantonio Magnarapa : marcantonio@magnarapa.com

http://www.magnarapa.com

Maria Simona Morosin : geastrak@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • teaching of Italian and English LS to young children and to adolescents
  • bilingualism
  • second language acquisition
  • neurobiology of language (cognitive processes involved)
  • neurolinguistics

Japanese

Joyce Jacobo : joyjacobo@gmail.com

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com


Kalenjin

Kibny'aanko Seroney : kassuk@kassfm.co.ke

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Phonology
  • Lexicography
  • Translation
  • Grammar
  • Learning and Teaching Materials
  • Website - http://www.Kassfm.co.ke

Kasmiri

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Kazakh

William Dirks : anazahqaan@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning Kazakh as a foreign language
  • Culture

 

Khmer

Vichea In : vin@indiana.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Practical Khmer (words and phrases commonly used in speaking)
  • Language acquisition (Khmer)

Prawet Jantharat : jantharatp2@monterey.army

Areas of expertise:
  • Teaching materials
  • Availability of programs

Chhany Sak-Humphry : sak@hawaii.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Old Khmer inscriptions
  • Pedagogy
  • Material development
  • Modern Khmer teaching

Khumi Chin

Justin Watkins : justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Korean

Tae-Jin Kim Buehrer : tjbhrr@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Metalinguistic development
  • Second language acquisition

Kurdish

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com


Lao

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Lithuanian

Irena Gintilas : lituanica@sbcglobal.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Grammar
  • Phonetics
  • Translation
  • Reading materials
  • Historical development of Lithuanian

Lombard (western)

Marco Tamburelli : marcolings@yahoo.co.uk

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Phonology
  • Historical development of Lombard


Macedonian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Liljana Mitkovska : liljana55@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Grammar (i.e., Morpho-Syntax)
  • Vocabulary;
  • Colloquial speech and slang
  • Language history and culture
  • Translation

Marathi

Satish Kamatkar : skamatka@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:

 

Sudhir Kamatkar : marathimitra@marathimitra.com

Areas of expertise:

Micronesian

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Mongolian

Duane L. Blanchard :dblanchard@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Modern Mongolian (Khalkha)

Michael Walker : mcwalker@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Classical and Cyrillic Mongolian

Mon-Khmer

See Wa

Montenegrin

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Lexicology
  • Lexicography
  • Morphology
  • Natural language processing
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Historical linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Curriculum
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Structure
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Language politics

Myanmar

See Burmese


Norwegian

Eilif Heyerdahl : practicenorwegian@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • culture and literature
  • political science
  • teaching
  • the classics

Liv Kari Herstad : livkari@yahoo.com
Areas of expertise:

  • Pedagogy (Second Language teaching)
  • Daily life
  • Nynorsk
  • Vocabulary
  • Syntax

Louis Janus : janus005@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Norwegian morphology
  • Pronunciation
  • Language history

Stian Oksavik : stian@mail.utexas.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Idiom usage

 


Old Church Slavonic

Steven P Hill : s-hill4@illinois.edu


Pashto

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Abid Khan : m.abid6@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Computational Morphology

Persian

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Arabic loanwords in Persian / Farsi

Michael Craig Hillmann : mhill@mail.utexas.edu

Pardis Minuchehr : minupari@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language pedogogy
  • Language testing and assessment
  • Culture and literature
  • Teaching language through film

Atefeh Oliai : atefeh04@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Curriculum development
  • Instructional materials development
  • Usage of literature for instructional materials of all levels
  • Online Testing and Assessment :0+ to 4+
  • Pedagogy / Teacher training
  • Text typology
  • Immersion programs
  • Intensive language programs k-16

Poguli

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Polish

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Andy Golebiowski : andywbuffalo@yahoo.com

Iwona Sadowska : ibs3@georgetown.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Gender issues in Polish
  • Diminutives
  • Etymology

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching / acquisition
  • Morphology

Ewa Szewc : sapere.aude@vp.pl

Areas of expertise:
  • vocabulary
  • colloquial speech
  • literature
  • culture

Portuguese

Blair Bateman : blair_bateman@byu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Available teaching materials (especially textbooks)
  • Pedagogy
  • Teaching grammar
  • Teaching culture (Brazil and Portugal)

Maria Cristina Silveria : silveira_maria@hotmail.com

Orlando R. Kelm : orkelm@austin.utexas.edu

Areas of expertise:

Maria Eugenia Moratto : moratto@csus.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Culture
  • Linguistics

Ana Sousa : acsousa@csustan.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Portuguese as a global language
  • Teaching/learning Portuguese as a Second or Foreign Language
  • Teaching/learning Portuguese with open source web technology
  • http://www.portulan-online.net/

Punjabi / Panjabi

Gurinder Singh Mann : mann@religion.ucsb.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Medieval Punjabi Literature
  • Teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language


Romanian

Tiberiu Weisz : kaifengstones@yahoo.com

Russian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Irina Kulikova : tirwen@yandex.ru

Areas of expertise:
  • Colloquial speech
  • Slang
  • Grammar
  • Pronunciation

Nona Mozer : NMOZER@aol.com

Areas of expertise:
  • history and culture

Kae Raratyuk : katico@bigmir.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Culture
  • Dialects
  • Teaching materials

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby : jrouhie@pop.uky.edu

Areas of expertise:

Tsvetelina Yordanova : yordanovats@hotmail.com


Serbian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Danko Sipka : Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Lexicology
  • Lexicography
  • Morphology
  • Natural language processing
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Historical linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

A Zoran Star?evi? : zoranstar@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching and language acquisition
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Curriculum
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Structure
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Language politics

Shina

Peter Hook : pehook@umich.edu

Slovenian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Sm'algyax

Margaret Seguin Anderson : anderson@unbc.ca

Areas of expertise:

Somali

Khadar Ali : kali@hct.ac.ae

Areas of expertise:
  • OIP Interviewer

Mohja : mohaaden@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Syntax
  • Translation
  • Vocabulary
  • phonetics
  • beginners' teaching material

Swahili

Thomas Hinnebusch : hinnebus@HUMnet.UCLA.EDU

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching pedagogy
  • Materials availability
  • Comparative and historical linguistics
  • Sociolinguistic situation of Swahili and other East African languages

James Nyachae Michira: mich0289@umn.edu

Mpasua Msonobari : msonobari@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Translation of Swahili and English
  • Technical terms
  • Travel study programs and internships in East Africa
  • Iintensive language drills
  • Swahili history and future status

Swedish

Valorie Arrowsmith : varrow2@ecenet.com

Barbara Cartford : barbaracartford@hotmail.com

Elisabet Eir Cortes : elisabet@ling.su.se

Ben Larson : belarson@york.edu


Tagalog

Marina Hamoy: cebuano_tagalog@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching
  • Pronunciation
  • OPI using ILR
  • Available teaching materials
  • Reading materials
  • Translation

Taiwanese

Pushpalatha Sundarsingh : jsdsingh@omantel.net.om

Areas of expertise:
  • Playway method of teaching
  • Teaching spoken Tamil to non-native Tamil speakers
  • Guidance to research methodology

Thai

Frederick H. Jackson : fjackson@nflc.org

Nanna Jonsson : nthepchai@hotmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Language teaching
  • General linguistics
  • Historical-comparative linguistics
  • Literature/comparative literature

Tibeto-Burman

See Khumi Chin

Tongan

Richard "Lisiate" Thompson : lisiate@aol.com

Turkish

Yeliz Celiker celi0016@umn.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Daily conversation


Uighur

William Dirks : anazahqaan@yahoo.com

Ukrainian

E Wayles Browne : ewb2@cornell.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Learning and teaching materials
  • Translation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary

Natalia Pylypiuk : natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca

Areas of expertise:
  • Ukrainian literature: 11th-18th centuries and post-colonial period
  • Language teaching to native speakers of English, especially at the introductory and intermediate levels

Kate Raratyuk : katico@bigmir.net

Areas of expertise:
  • Vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Culture
  • Dialects
  • Teaching materials

Urdu

Stephen H. Franke : Mutarjm@aol.com

Fran Pritchett : fp7@columbia.edu

Website:

Ali Taqi : ali@taqi.org

Areas of expertise:
  • Grammar
  • Teaching Materials
  • Pedaogy
  • History
  • Literature
  • Lexicography
  • Culture

Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi : warsimj@gmail.com

Areas of expertise:
  • Computational linguistics
  • Language teaching
  • Communication studies
  • Sociolinguistics

Uzbek

William Dirks : anazahqaan@yahoo.com

Areas of expertise:


Wa

Justin Watkins : justin.watkins@soas.ac.uk

Wolof

Omar Ka : ka@umbc.edu

Areas of expertise:
  • Phonology
  • Sociolinguistics (including Language Planning and Language Policy)
  • Learning materials development


Yiddish

David Goldberg : DGoldberg@mla.org

Areas of expertise:
  • syntax
  • vocabulary
  • learning and teaching materials
  • translation,
  • dialectology.

Vera Szabo : verele@umich.edu


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