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Sheena Shah

@sheenashah.bsky.social
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Linguist @uni-hamburg.de | Humboldtian @humboldt-foundation.de | PI of English in Botswana project (DFG Research Unit CODILAC) | Multilingualism, Endangered Languages, Documentation & Revitalisation, SiPhuthi, Southern Africa | www.sheenashah.co.uk

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Sheena Shah @sheenashah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The siPhuthi language is featured in @theguardian.com! Read about our work with activists and community members to document and revitalise the language - and see some beautiful photos of Lesotho. share.google/cbwYuYFBK1nG... Story by @rachelmsavage.bsky.social #Lesotho #Linguistics #LangSky
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‘I thought it was going to perish’: the remarkable revival of an endangered language in Lesotho
Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activists
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Sheena Shah @sheenashah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📢 W2-Professur: Linguistik des Deutschen – Grammatik und Fachdidaktik at @tu-dortmund.bsky.social – apply by 11.06.2025 Great #job in #Germanistik / #Linguistik: www.academics.de/jobs/univers... TU Dortmund (my former workplace) is a wonderful place to work – great team, great environment!
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Universitätsprofessur (W2) Linguistik des Deutschen: Grammatik und Fachdidaktik - Technische Universität Dortmund
Technische Universität Dortmund bietet Stelle als Universitätsprofessur (W2) Linguistik des Deutschen: Grammatik und Fachdidaktik in Dortmund - jetzt bewerben!
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Sheena Shah @sheenashah.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📘 New chapter out! We look at how language documentation has evolved - from focusing on single languages to building multilingual corpora, with more collaboration and speaker involvement. doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-047 #Linguistics #LanguageDocumentation #LanguageContact #Multilingualism #Africa
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47. From language description to the collaborative documentation of multilingual settings on the African continent
47. From language description to the collaborative documentation of multilingual settings on the African continent was published in Volume 2 on page 811.
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...
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Hiring a dream team in linguistic diversity and social participation
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