Marcel Courthiade

Marcel Courthiade (2 August 1953 – 4 March 2021) was a French linguist and researcher.

Biography
Courthiade studied medicine at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, which he abandoned to study Slavic languages, particularly Serbo-Croatian and Polish. He then studied at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris, where he earned a diploma in Polish, Macedonian, and Albanian. He titled his doctoral thesis Phonologie des variétés dialectales de Rromani et diasystèmes graphiques de la langue Romani, a degree he earned from the École pratique des hautes études.

During his studies, Courthiade worked for several NGOs regarding education for Romani people in Albania. Subsequently, he worked as a political analyst and interpreter at the French Embassy in Albania for four years. In 1997, he became a lecturer at INALCO. In 2008, he was a key participant of Louis Mochet's film Rromani Soul. In 2019, he became a member of the scientific council Délégué interministériel à la lutte contre le racisme, l'antisémitisme et la haine anti-LGBT.

Marcel Courthiade died in Tirana on 4 March 2021 at the age of 67.

Publications

 * Romani fonetika thaj Lekhipa (1986)
 * Xàca dùme, but godi (1980s)
 * Gramatika e gjuhës Rrome (1989)
 * Stuart Manns Wörterbuch des albanischen Romanes (1990)
 * In the margin of Romani. Gypsy languages in contact (1991)
 * Dialektologikano pućhipnasqo lil vaś-i klasifikàcia e rromane ćhibǎqe [dia]lektenqiri (1992)
 * Śirpustik. amare ćhibǎqiri (1992)
 * Lil e Efesianěnqe. Epistoli pros Efesioys (1993)
 * Terre d'asile, terre d'exil. l'Europe tsigane (1993)
 * De l'usage de l'abécédaire « Śirpustik amare ćhibǎqiri » (1994)
 * Langues de Diaspora (1994)
 * Phonologie des parlers rrom et diasysteme graphique de la langue romani (1995)
 * Structure dialectale de la langue rromani (1998)
 * Les Rroms, Ashkalis et Gorans de Dardanie (Kosovo) (2000)
 * Les Tziganes ou le destin sauvage des Roms de l'Est (2002)
 * Appendix Two. Kannauʒ on the Ganges, cradle of the Rromani people (2004)
 * Les Rroms dans les belles lettres européennes (2004)
 * La Langue rromani, d'un millénaire à l'autre, Études Tsiganes (2005)
 * Sagesse et humour du peuple rrom (2007)
 * L'origine des Rroms. Cheminement d'une (re)découverte : Kannauj « berceau » du peuple rrom» (2007)
 * La littérature des Rroms, Sintés et Kalés