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Tihomir Rangelov

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Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 263
E-Mail: tihomir_rangelov@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

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About me

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A spectrogram and waveform of the word nabbu [naᵐʙu] ‘bamboo’ uttered by a 35-year-old female Ahamb speaker, demonstrating the prenasalised bilabial trill sounds that are found in Ahamb and other languages of Malekula Island in Vanuatu, but are otherwise rarely found in the world’s languages.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution and a member of the Comparative Oceanic Linguistics (CoOL) group. 

My main research interests are language documentation, description and maintenance, Oceanic languages and the languages of Vanuatu in particular, historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, linguistic typology and narrative techniques. I have been working on the Ahamb language, spoken on Malekula Island, since 2017. Since 2022, I have been conducting a linguistic survey of Espiritu Santo Island and working towards a detailed description of the Nokuku language. I work with data from these and other languages with a focus on using comparative methods in identifying patterns in the structures of the languages of Vanuatu, the Pacific and the world. The goal is to document new linguistic data, contribute to existing linguistic and evolutionary theories, and assist the communities of speakers of these endangered languages to maintain and revitalise their traditional knowledge and linguistic competence. I also use my filmmaking skills in achieving these goals.

Previously I worked on North Germanic languages (Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Old Norse), phonetics and phonology and machine translation. I am passionate about cycle touring, high mountains and volcanoes, adventure travel and all things outdoors.

Curriculum Vitae

2017-2021PhD in Linguistics.
University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Thesis title: “A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)”
2009-2013MA in Computational Linguistics.
University of Iceland/University of Reykjavík.
hesis: “Apertium-is-sv: Rule-based machine translation between Icelandic and Swedish.”
2005-2008BA in Icelandic Studies.
University of Iceland. Major: Icelandic; Icelandic Phonetics and Phonology.
BA thesis (in Icelandic): “Fortis and lenis stops: On voice onset time in Icelandic, Swedish and Bulgarian.” 
2000-2007MA in Scandinavian Studies.
Five-year course at Sofia University.
Major: Swedish, Phonetics and Phonology;
Minor: Danish, Scandinavian literature.
MA thesis (in Swedish): “The plosives in Swedish and Icelandic: A comparative analysis from a synchronic viewpoint.”

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