Abbie Hantgan-sonko
Scientific Researcher at Languages and cultures of Africa
Villejuif, Île-de-France, France
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Top SchoolAbbie Hantgan-sonko is a linguistic field researcher with eight years of experience documenting and analyzing understudied African languages, specializing in phonology and corpus linguistics. Based in Villejuif, France, she works at LLACAN (CNRS/INALCO) and has led field projects on Dogon, Bangime and Tiefo, combining acoustic analysis with theoretical description. Her career spans postdoctoral and visiting roles at SOAS and the Max Planck Institute, where she collaborated across genetics and information sciences to probe language isolates. She also brings practical revitalization and consultancy experience from The Language Conservancy and the National Language Service Corps, and has trained and taught language courses at Indiana University. Known for meticulous fieldwork—recording, transcribing, and glossing rare narratives and cultural knowledge—she leverages corpus methods to make endangered speech communities’ data accessible for both science and revitalization.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), African Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), African Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Indiana University BloomingtonB.A., Psychology, Art, B.A., Psychology, Art at Warren Wilson College
English, French, bambara, dogon, fulah, bangime, Wolof, joola
Github Skills (39)
linguistics10
difference10
metadata8
r-package7
boundaries7
atlas6
map-projections6
gis5
plot5
geopandas5
matplotlib4
r4
python4
maps4
cartography3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LinguList/dogon-data
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:48 commits in 4 months
languageislands/languageislands.github.io
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 months
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