Marcel courthiade biography

Position:Associated Professor in Rromani Socio-Linguistics, INALCO

Marcel Courthiade is a French linguist, born in Albania in 1953. He lives in France where he researches and promotes the Rromani language and culture. He was originally a medical student in Clermont-Ferrand (France), but gave up this specialization to focus on Slavic languages, especially Serbo-Croatian and Polish. After graduating in Albanian, Macedonian and Polish from the INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales) in Paris, he wrote his PhD thesis on the phonetics of the various Rromani dialects. During his studies, he was involved in NGOs working in educational projects for Albanian Roma. He has run and coordinated various cultural and educational projects. For four years, he worked as a political analyst at the French Embassy in Albania. After defending his PhD thesis in 1995, he became associated professor in Rromani sociolinguistics at the Ecole Pratiques des Haute Etudes. In 1997, he became associated professor at the INALCO in Paris.

Updated February 2011

Bibliography

• Marcel Courthiade, “Romani fonetika thaj Lekhipa”, Filǎn Than, 1984
• Marcel Courthiade, “Structure dialectale de la langue rromani”, in

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Marcel Courthiade

Marcel Courthiade, nado 2 de agosto de 1953 en Montceau-les-Mines e finado 4 de marzo de 2021 en Tirana, foi un lingüista francés, investigador e promotor da lingua e cultura romaní.

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Naceu na rexión histórica da Borgoña mais seu pai era occitanofalante^[1]. Marcel Courthiade comezou a estudar medicina na Universidade de Clermont-Ferrand que abandonou en favor do estudo das linguas eslavas con especialización no campo das linguas serbocroata e polaca. Despois continuou estudos no Instituto Nacional de Linguas e Civilizacións Orientais (INALCO) de París, e logrou diplomas en albanés, macedonio e polaco. Durante os seus estudos, involucrouse no traballo de varias ONG activas en proxectos educativos dirixidos aos xitanos albaneses, e así coordinou e xestionou diversos proxectos educativos e culturais. Durante catro anos traballou como analista político e intérprete na embaixada francesa en Albania. Defendeu a súa tese doutoral Phonologie des variétés dialectales de Rromani et diasystèmes graphiques de la langue Rromani na École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) en 1995 e logo foi profesor asociado de sociolingüística romani nesa institución ata que en 1997 pasou a dar clases en INALCO.

En 2008, foi, con Esma Red