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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.09.13 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">> And here's a request from me. Please see if you can rustle up Horn of Africa<br>
> translations and sound files for the Wren project (Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre,<br>
> Oromo, ...).<br>
<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ok, will do my best.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
And, as I may have mentioned I have a video file of the Wren in Indian</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Sign Language (ISL), partially subtitled. When I get the chance to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
finish the subtitling, and figuring out how else to make it more</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
accessible, I will get that to you. (Depending on what exactly they</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
have me teaching this first semester -- classes start in 2 weeks and I</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
haven't been told specifically yet -- I may use that story with one or</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
more of my classes, so that would speed up the work greatly: 一石二鳥)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
When I get comfortable with Ethiopian Sign Language (yEMQ) I will try</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
to do the same for that. As for the spoken HoA languages, I will work</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
on getting versions of them as well. Unlike in Mumbai, I won't be</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
working 100% with Deaf, so I am likely to have native-speaker</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
colleagues of several of the languages. (The coordinator of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
programme I am affiliated with is an Amharic native speaker, but also</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
speaks (some) Somali, Tigrinya and Oromo, in addition to yEMQ.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
However, since he MAY soon be my PhD half-advisee as well as my</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"boss", asking him might be a delicate operation ... esp. in light of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the recent firing of faculty at Hokkaido Univeristy of Education for</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"harrassing" students by making them help work on/with Ainu.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
mike || U C > || мика || माईक || マイク || ሚካኤል</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":1h8" class="ii gt">+++++<br>
(( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))<br>
Assistant Professor in Linguistics<br>
Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Studies Program<br>
Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Yo afaan wali galle malee, diina keenya il en manque.</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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