Olga Olina
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- Name
- Olga Olina
- olga.olina (at) gmx.net
- Institution
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften → Afrikanische Sprachen
- Function / Working Area
- PhD Student / ELDP Projekt
- Visiting address
- Hausvogteiplatz 5-7 , Room 302b/c
- Phone number
- (030) 2093 66101
- Consultation hours
- By appointment via email
- Mailing address
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Research Interests
- Endangered languages
- Language documentation
- Historical linguistics
- Writing systems
Current Research
Jirim Voices: Documentation and Description of Jirim Language and Traditions
Funding: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, Oct 2024 - Sep 2027
Jirim is an endangered language spoken by approximately 10,000 people in central-eastern Nigeria. Jirim is minimally documented and under significant influence from English and Hausa, which severely threatens its intergenerational transmission. This project aims to document the linguistic and cultural traditions of the Jirim community. Planned outputs include a corpus of 55 hours of video recordings featuring endangered festivals, daily activities, and linguistic elicitation sessions. A significant portion of the corpus will be transcribed, translated, and linguistically annotated. Based on this collection, a trilingual dictionary (Jirim-Hausa-English) and a grammar sketch will be produced.