Pius Akumbu

Pius Akumbu is a linguist affiliated with the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) as a Director of Research (DR2) at the LLACAN laboratory in Paris. He collaborates with Harvard University's PhonLab on the study of speech and co-speech gestures in Grassfields languages, with a focus on his native language, Kejom (Babanki).

• Research Focus: Phonetics, phonology, and multimodal communication in African languages.
• Affiliation: CNRS (LLACAN laboratory) and Harvard PhonLab.
• Key Contributions: Interdisciplinary work bridging linguistics and gesture analysis in under-documented languages.