Africa

Sweden

Ph.D.

Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

jouni.maho@african.gu.se

African Languages
Department of Oriental and African Languages
Göteborg University
P.O. Box 200
SE 40530
Göteborg
Sweden

phone: +46 (0)31 773 4651
fax: +46 (0)31 773 5270

http://www.african.gu.se/maho/

Namibia ; Tanzania.

Research interests: Sub-Saharan languages, Bantu languages, Khoisan
languages, southern and eastern Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, linguistics,
typology, dialectology, areal linguistics, grammar/semantics.

Teaching: Undergraduate introductory courses to language & society in
Africa.

1998. Few people, many tongues: the languages of Namibia
[ISBN 99916-0-086-8]. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers. [Pp x,
222] (A typological and sociolinguistic survey of languages and
linguistics in Namibia.)

1999. A comparative study of Bantu noun classes [ISBN 91-7346-364-7].
Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia [ISSN 1404-3556], no 13.
Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. [Pp xvi, 388, 1 errata
page] (A typological and dialectological survey of the noun class systems
in 300+ Bantu languages. )

2001 (Sep). African languages country by country: a reference guide.
Fifth edition. Göteborg africana informal series [ISBN 1404-8523],
no 1. Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University.
[Pp 198] (A collection of maps depicting languages & cultures in African
countries and regions. (Made for our undergraduate students.))

2002. With Bonny Sands. The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography [ISBN
91-7346-454-6]. Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia [ISSN 1404-3556],
no 17. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. [Pp ix, 426] (An
annotated bibliography of what has been written (published or not) about
the 120+ Tanzanian languages.)

sub-Saharan languages ; Bantu languages ; Khoisan languages ; linguistics ; dialectology.