Anthony Traill (linguist)

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Professor Anthony Traill is a linguist (specifically a phonetician), who is the world's foremost authority on a San (more broadly, a Khoisan) language called !Xóõ. He has published widely on this language, including a dictionary[1] of the language. !Xóõ is famous for having probably the largest consonant inventory of any language on the planet.

For the most part, Traill's publications address the phonetics of !Xóõ in relation to related San languages. He has also contributed importantly to the Khoisan and Bantu instrumental phonetic literature on tone (linguistics) with respect to voice (phonetics) and breathy voice.

Anthony Traill is currently Professorial Research Fellow, and was Professor and Chair of Linguistics, in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, until 1998. He speaks highly competent !Xóõ, having conducted research in the !Xóõ communities of Botswana on nearly 100 field trips over more than 35 years. He also speaks Zulu, Tsonga, Tswana and Afrikaans.

Tony Traill lives in Johannesburg.

[edit] Publications

  • Traill, Anthony. A !Xóõ Dictionary. (edited by Rainer Vossen). University Frankfurt/Main: Johann Wolfgang Goethe. ISBN 3-927620-56-4, OCLC 31270873. Volume 9 of "Research in Khoisan Studies", which has ISSN 0176-3369.
  • Traill, Anthony (1986). Phonetic and Phonological Studies of !Xóõ Bushman. (Quellen Zur Khoisan-Forschung, No 1), John Benjamins, January 1, 1986, ISBN 3-87118-669-4.
  • Traill, Anthony (1973). A Preliminary Sketch of !Xu) phonetics. Edinburgh University Department of Linguistics Work in Progress 6:1-23.
  • Traill, Anthony (1985). Phonetic and Phonological Studies in !Xoo Bushman. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
  • Traill, Anthony (1990). Depression without depressors. South African Journal of African Languages 10: 166-172.
  • Traill, Anthony. (1995). The Khoesan Languages. In Mesthrie, R. (ed.), Language in South Africa. 27-49. Cape Town: Cambridge University Press.
  • Traill, Anthony, James S. M. Khumalo, Paul Fridjhon (1987). Depressing facts about Zulu. African Studies 46: 255-274.
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