Some introductory words
Jambo! Habari gani?
Some Introductory Words to this Project
Our study of the language situation in East Africa is by no means complete rather we have intended to give you a short introduction to the language situation in Kenya and Tanzania and hopefully some inspirational links and thoughts for your further research.
We do not deny a certain humorous aspect of giving ourselves to the task to engage in the language situation of a country none of us has ever been to or even seen, except on maps and television. If you want to read the following pages, please, go and make yourself a nice cup of tea first - you will need it later. (If you do not want to read the following pages: We forgive you.)
The Chemnitz University research team was:
- Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied
- Barbara Krohne
- Diana Hudson-Ettle
- Paul Skandera
From 1991 until 1998 they set up ICE-EA, the work included travels, collecting texts and material, the setup of the special ICE-EA design and an internal markup system, computerizing every single letter of every single text sample, drawing conclusions out of their work and writing them down for various publications, re-examination of some of the conclusions and making the corpus available on CD-ROM and on the Internet.
- Eva Neubert
- Astrid Lohse
- Dirk Schmerschneider
- Katja Kaiser
- Katrin Voigt