Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga
Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga (born 1952 in Ouani ( Nzwani )) is a Comorian linguist , writer, politician and professor. His main focus is on spreading the culture of the Comoros and in 2006 he stood as a candidate for the Comoros presidential election .
Life
Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga earned degrees in Swahili and Arabic at the Collège de Mutsamudu and then traveled to Madagascar and France , where he studied linguistics. In 1976 he created a method to transcribe the Shikomori ( Comorian language ). He has written numerous articles on this language. His doctoral thesis "Le Shindzuani (Comores): Phonologie, morphologie, lexique" from 1991 is also dedicated to this language. In this context, he has also translated numerous Comorian fairy tales.
He was Professor of Comorian at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INALCO) in Paris , and collaborator at the Center National de Documentation et de Recherche Scientifique (CNDRS, Moroni & Ouani) and Professor at the Université des Comores since its inception.
literature
- Dictionnaire français-comorien
- Lexique comorien (shindzuani) -français
- Contes comoriens de Ngazidja
Web links
- Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga: BiblioMonde
- bibliography
- Editions Coelacanthe
- INALCO
- L'Université des Comores
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahmed-Chamanga, Mohamed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Comorian linguist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ouani , Nzwani |