Aron Zahran (°1995) is a Swedish/Tanzanian PhD student doing a joint PhD with uGhent and Inalco/Llacan (CNRS) in Paris. He is part of the OriKunda ANR project (PI Rozenn Guérois) which aims at revising the history of the Chikunda language from the origins to the present day. Aron's PhD explores the historical-linguistic components of the project.
Aron is currently working on the description of Chikunda morphosyntax, and he is conducting a comparative analysis of morphosyntactic features in neighbouring Zambezi Valley Bantu languages (i.e. Nsenga, Nyungwe, Sena, Barwe, Chewa-Nyanja, and certain Shona varieties such as Tawara and Korekore).
Aron obtained his master's degree with a major in African Languages at the University of Gothenburg in 2023. He has previously conducted research and fieldwork on Bantu languages, mainly Swahili, Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo. He also has experience from working on the developement of a multimodal corpus on spoken isiXhosa.
