Jouni Filip Maho (Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden)

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Jouni Filip Maho, Ph.D.
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
E-mail:  jouni.maho@african.gu.se


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



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.


Selected Publications:

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.)