Martin Orwin
English linguist and somalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin Orwin is a British linguist, scholar and writer, specializing in the languages and cultures of the Horn of Africa. Biography Orwin studied Arabic and Amharic and has a PhD in the phonology of the Somali language. Since 1992, he has been a lecturer in Somali and Amharic at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, where he teaches both Afro-Asiatic languages. Since 2020, he also teaches both Somali language and Somali literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" . He has also published articles on Somali language and poetry and has conducted field research in the Horn of Africa.
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- Women's Voices in a Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980 (1999) (25)
- Colloquial Somali: A Complete Language Course (1995) (20)
- On the concept of ‘definitive text’ in Somali poetry (2003) (16)
- Professor Bogumił Witalis Andrzejewski 1922–1994 (1996) (13)
- The Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia (2008) (13)
- A Moraic model of the prosodic phonology of Somali (1996) (11)
- An approach to relationships between Somali metre types (1997) (9)
- On Consonants in Somali Metrics (2001) (7)
- Language use in three Somali religious poems (2001) (7)
- Language, Music and Interaction (2013) (7)
- A literary stylistic analysis of a poem by the Somali poet Axmed Ismaciil Diiriye ‘Qaasim’1 (2000) (6)
- The prefix conjugation in Qafar‐Saho: the survival and revival of a paradigm — Part I (1991) (6)
- Somali-English, English-Somali Dictionary and Phrasebook (1999) (5)
- Alliteration in Somali Poetry (2011) (5)
- Phonation in Somali phonology (1993) (4)
- Language and music as mechanisms for interaction (2013) (3)
- Somalia: Language Situation (1994) (3)
- Carried by a mystic wind. B. W. Andrzejewski on the Somali passion for poetry and language (2011) (2)
- Islamic religious poetry in Africa (2001) (2)
- War and Peace: An anthology of Somali literature (2009) (1)
- Arabic influence on metre in Somali Sufi religious poetry (2019) (1)
- With the Glow of Dawn they Came upon Us (2009) (1)
- The Worldly and the Unworldly in Jacayl Dhiig Ma Lagu Qoray by Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame "Hadraawi" (2006) (1)
- The Community of Ants (2018) (1)
- Crafting modern Somali poetry: Lyric features in ‘Fad Galbeed’ by Gaarriye and ‘Xabagbarsheed’ by Weedhsame (2020) (1)
- Reflections of the Somali situation in the novel Waddadii Walbahaarka (The Road of Grief) by Xuseen Sheekh Biixi (2001) (1)
- Introduction to Somali Poetry and translations of 'Samadoon' by Cabdulqaadir Xaaji Cali Xaaji Axmed and 'Jacayl Dhiigma ma lagu Qoray' by Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame 'Hadraawi' (2001) (1)
- Somali/Somalia/Somaliland: Ethnography [an] Geography [and] History 1880-1960 [and] The role of Islam in Somali society [and] Language [and] Literature. (1997) (0)
- Somalia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music (2019) (0)
- 'Arrogance' and 'Seer' (2018) (0)
- Maryama Sheekh: A Poem by Sayid Mohamed Abdille Hasan (2012) (0)
- Virtual Geminates in the Metre of Somali Poetry (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2011) (0)
- Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye': Poems (2009) (0)
- A Poem by Cabdulle Raage (Abdulle Raage) (2009) (0)
- Language and poetry: an inextricable link (1993) (0)
- A Poem by Raage Ugaas (2009) (0)
- On translating Somali poetry (2006) (0)
- Creative writing in african languages (2006) (0)
- R. David Zorc and Abdullahi A. Issa: Somali textbook, xiv, 681 pp. Wheaton, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1990. (1992) (0)
- 'Somali literature', 'Faarax Maxamed Jaamac "Cawl"', 'Galaal, Muuse Xaaji Ismaaciil' (2003) (0)
- Muuse Galaal's contribution to the academic study of Somali language and culture (2011) (0)
- Professor Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, 1922-1994 [obituary] (2009) (0)
- Arabic Loanwords in the Somali Language (1991) (0)
- Somali, the name of a people of the Horn of Africa, and Somalia, Somaliland (2012) (0)
- Language use in three Somali religious (2001) (0)
- 'Rain's Breeze' (2018) (0)
- Samadoon by Cabdulqaadir Xaaji Cali Xaaji Axmed (2002) (0)
- †B. W. Andrzejewski with S. Andrzejewski (tr.): An anthology of Somali poetry . ix, 113 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. £17.50 (paper £7.99). (1995) (0)
- Rooxaan by Jaamac Muuse Jaamac (2018) (0)
- BSO volume 62 issue 1 Front matter (1999) (0)
- On Translating Somali Poetry: some personal thoughts with particular reference to 'Saxansaxo' (Rain's Breeze) (2018) (0)
- Metre and 'extrametricality' in the geeraar (2018) (0)
- Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015 (2018) (0)
- Samadoon (2002) (0)
- Of Hand-made moons (1999) (0)
- Anthology Of Chinese Literature Volume I From Early Times To The Fourteenth Century Epub Read (2021) (0)
- Phonological Aspects of Somali (1991) (0)
- JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON, THOMAS A. HALE and STEPHEN BELCHER (ed.): Oral epics from Africa: vibrant voices from a vast continent. xxii, 331 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. $14.95. (2001) (0)
- 'Searching for my Culture' and 'Indispensable' (2018) (0)
- Cabdullaahi Qarshe: An Appreciation (2002) (0)
- Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a socially deprived UK coastal town: a preliminary exploratory analysis of health and socioeconomic data (2021) (0)
- Alliteration in Somali and English Poetry, a Comparison (1991) (0)
- Dynamic Syntax as a basis for modelling meaning in music (2013) (0)
- A Poem by Axmed Aw Geeddi (2008) (0)
- The behaviour of the suffixes -le, -ley, -ey and la in Somali by Cabdiraxmaan C. Faarax 'Guri-Barwaaqo' (2018) (0)
- Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame 'Hadraawi': The Poet and the Man (2013) (0)
- Ioan M. Lewis, Understanding Somalia: guide to culture, history and social institutions . London: Haan Associates, 1993, 115 pp., £8.95, ISBN 1 874209 41 3, paperback. (1994) (0)
- Slovakia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice (2019) (0)
- Illustrated Catalogue of UNITAF Aerial Leaflets Used in Support of Operation 'Restore Hope' Somalia 9 December 1992 - 4 May 1993 (1995) (0)
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