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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Domergue Sumien is a linguist and a teacher in Occitan language. He has a Phd in linguistics ("Occitan Studies", Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier) and a postgraduate certificate in history (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence).

He was born in 1968 and he lives near Toulon and Aix-en-Provence (Provence).

His main research fields are:

• Linguistics
  • Romance languages, especially Occitan and Catalan
  • Sociolinguistics, especially language planning and language ideology
  • Lexicography and lexicology
• History, especially the analysis of afrocentrism in Cheikh Anta Diop's works and their ideological issues concerning large scale history, large scale comparative linguistics and language planning.