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Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University

The Department of Linguistics was established in the academic year 1978-79, as one of four departments constituting the Institute of Language Studies (ILS) which was founded during the same year. The Department has the objectives of training students who could help in the documentation, codification and modernization of the minority languages of the country, who could do the groundwork for the development of literacy programs in the various languages, and undertake basic research towards the preservation of the linguistic heritages of the country.