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Georg Ziegelmeyer serves as Senior Lecturer for African Linguistics and Lecturer for Hausa at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. His teaching portfolio includes Hausa language courses at multiple proficiency levels and specialized seminars on African linguistics, with active course offerings scheduled through 2025.
His research centers on West African languages, with geographical specialization in Hausa and Chadic languages, Kanuri and Saharan relatives, and Atlantic languages (Fulfulde, Wolof, Cangin). Thematically, he investigates contact linguistics, language typology, and documentation, with two decades of fieldwork focused on linguistic contact scenarios in the Wider Lake Chad Region—including dynamics of change in northeastern Nigeria and Gashua Bade language data collection.
Scientific Awards: None listed in source material.
He has collaborated on major research projects (2002-2010) examining linguistic change in Nigeria. Professionally, he organized SYWAL2016 at the University of Vienna, led the 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium (2019), serves on BICCL and SYWAL scientific committees, and co-edits Schriften zur Afrikanistik/Research in African Studies since 2019.
