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Category: Dr Paul Tench

BBC Radio 4 · ciShanjo · Dr Paul Tench · Western Mail

They used to hunt animals

September 16, 2011 John2 Comments

Yesterday’s Radio 4 programme carried a fascinating little piece on the work of Dr Paul Tench, a retired linguist from Cardiff University. Paul has been helping the Shanjo people of Zambia to develop a writing system for the first time. The twenty thousand or so Shanjo people are but one group in a country of 13.5 million… Continue reading They used to hunt animals

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