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A
Ph. D. student in General
Linguistics at the
University of Helsinki,
Finland.
Areas of interest and study include
-
Semitic languages:
Classical Arabic,
West African
Arabic dialects,
Biblical Hebrew, Classical
Syriac, Jewish Babylonian
Aramaic etc.
-
Atlantic languages and
Mande languages
-
Finnish language
- all other
languages of the world, including but not limited to
Vietnamese,
Chinese,
Turkish,
Persian,
Somali,
Esperanto,
Klingon,
Urdu,
Hindi,
Irish,
Russian,
Dutch,
Hungarian etc. etc.
- articulatory and acoustic
phonetics
-
language typology,
contact languages,
historical linguistics
-
writing systems,
Unicode
-
Christianity,
Judaism,
Islam