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With more than two-thirds of the world’s languages becoming extinct today, the collection and preservation of linguistic data has become a necessary and important process. In the graduate linguistics course "Introduction to Field Methods," Tigrinya — a poorly documented endangered language spoken in parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia — was studied in order to teach students how to collect linguistic field data. A native speaker of the language who attends the university was the primary informant for the study. This presentation will focus on how these data were collected and the results of the study, which include preliminary phonological and morphological descriptions of the language. |
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