is a PhD student from the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Academic Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
He is working on the Cicipu language for his thesis. He has made two field trips to Galadima village in the Korisino dialect area, from September 2006 to March 2007, and from January to April 2008. He is currently in the UK writing up his
research.
Israel Wade
is an MA
student at the Theological
College of Northern Nigeria in Jos, northern Nigeria. He is
currently doing
linguistic fieldwork on Cicipu, again in Galadima village.
Mohammed Musa
is a primary school teacher from Maburya (Ukula) in the
Tikula dialect area of Cicipu. He speaks Cicipu (Tikula), Hausa,
Arabic, and English and divides his time between his work in Maburya
and his wife and two children in Kontagora. As well as working with Stuart
McGill and Israel Wade on the transcription and translation of texts, he has arranged several recording sessions with Kula elders, and is active
in promoting the use of the language.
Markus Mallam Yabani
Markus Mallam Yabani is a student and farmer from Galadima village who has worked
extensively on transcription, translation and language analysis. Together with Stuart McGill he is responsible for translating most of material found in the language resources section of this website.
