I write about Africa through its languages
I read sources in English, French and Arabic, and write about what is happening to the languages of the continent — from manuscripts to machine translation.
Writing
Short form
About
I'm interested in what happens to a language when everyone speaks about it except the people who speak it.
I'm a student at the Faculty of International Relations, BSU, studying Africa and reading sources in French and Arabic — the languages the region is discussed in from outside. Hence my interest in what is said from inside, and how it gets written down.
I take research work and turn it into something people finish reading.
- Education
- BSU, Faculty of International Relations — African studies
- Topics
- Language policy, writing systems and manuscripts, NLP for low-resource languages, field linguistics
- Published in
- Sysblok
- Location
- Minsk, Belarus
Two thousand languages. Almost everything written about them is written by people who can't read the sources.
For editors
A difficult subject laid out so a reader without special training can follow it.
I read the paper in full, check the conclusions and explain what it actually shows.
A conversation with a researcher or a speaker of the language — in Russian, English or French.
The whole picture: who is working on what, where the argument is, and what is still unresolved.
A first-person piece for when a subject has a clear position worth naming.