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Workshop: Historical language contact and emergent/emerging varieties in the Indian Ocean

Anne Wolfsgruber (1.-3.10.2021)


The aim in this workshop is to take a look at the historic language contact situations and the emergent / emerging contact varieties or codes through input talks, round table discussions and keynote addresses. This event is concerned with historic language contact in and around the Indian Ocean including the geographic spaces of East Africa, Mauritius and the Seychelles, the Arabian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Australia, all of which are sociohistorically interrelated through many layered networks.

For more information, see:

https://www.romanistik.de/aktuelles/4832