Otto Christian Dahl

**Otto Christian Dahl** (an haife shie 15,  ga watan yuli  1903 - Nuwamba 11, 1995)  ya kasance mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje na Norway a kasar  Madagascar, masanin harshe, kuma Masanin gwamnati.

An haifi Dahl a Namsos . Ya shiga karatun tauhidi a 1924, ya kammala a 1927, kuma an naɗa shi a wannan shekarar. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da ɗakin karatu na shekara guda a Makarantar Jakadancin Stavanger kafin ya yi tafiya zuwa Madagascar a 1929  a matsayin mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje na Norwegian Missionary Society (NMS). Ya yi aiki a Madagascar, tare da wasu katsewa, har zuwa 1957. Ya kasance darektan mishan na yammacin Madagascar daga 1952 zuwa 1957, kuma shugaban Cocin Lutheran na Madagascar daga 1955 zuwa 1957. Ya kasance malami a Makarantar Ofishin Jakadancin daga 1948 zuwa 1949, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin sakataren ofishin jakadancin NMS daga 1958 zuwa 1966.

Dahl ta yi karatun ilimin harshe a Oslo (1935-1937, 1947-1948, da 1950-1952), Hamburg (1937),  da Leiden (1950).  Ya sami digirin digirin digirgir daga Jami'ar Oslo a 1952 tare da rubutun Malgache et maanjan: Une comparaison linguistique (Malagasy da Ma'anyan: A Linguistic Comparison).  An bayyana shi a matsayin "watakila masanin duniya game da harshen Malagasy. "Aikin Dahl tare da harshen da kwatancinsa tsakanin Malagasy da Ma'anyan ya jagoranci shi da sauransu don ci gaba da ka'idar cewa mutanen da ke magana da Ma'ani sun zauna a cikin kimanin AD 400 daga yankin Tamianglayang a kudu maso yammacin Kalimantan (Borneo). 

An ba Dahl tallafin karatu na gwamnati a shekarar 1967. An ba shi suna "knight" na National Order of Madagascar a 1979, "official" a 1984, "commander" a 1989, kuma "grand officer" a 1995. Dahl ya kuma sami lambar yabo ta Sarkin Norway a zinariya. An sanya shi memba na Kwalejin Madagascar a shekara ta 1941, da kuma Kwalejin Kimiyya da Harafi ta Norway a shekara ta 1957.

Dahl yana da 'ya'ya biyar, daya daga cikinsu shine Øyvind Dahl, mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje kuma farfesa a Makarantar Jakadancin Stavanger. Otto Christian Dahl ya mutu a Stavanger .

## Ayyukan da Dahl ya zaɓa

* "Bibelen på Madagaskar" (Littafin Littafi Mai Tsarki a Madagascar, 1950) 
* "De Zending op Madagaskar" (The Mission in Madagascar, 1950) 
* Madagascar da Majan: Kwatanta harshe (Malagasy da Ma'anyan: Kwatante harshe, rubutun, 1951) 
* *Farkon rubutun Malagasy* (The Beginnings of Malagasy Spelling, 1966) 
* Labaran Madagascar a cikin yaren sakalava (Malagasy Tales in the Sakalava Dialect, 1968) 
* *Misjonsarbeidet og folkets kulturelle tradisjoner: Et foredrag for misjonærer* (Aikin Missionary da Al'adun Al'adu: Karatu ga Masu Wa'azi a ƙasashen waje, 1969) 
* *Gassisk* (Malagasy, 1970) 
* Proto-Austronesian (1973, 1977) 
* *Atopazy ny masonao* (Ka ɗaga idanunka, 1974) 
* *Canje-canje na Farko da Phonemic a cikin Austronesian* (1981) 
* "Sorabe: bayyana juyin halitta na yaren Antemoro" (Sorabe) 
* "Norske misjonærers" (Norwegian Missionaries' Research Efforts, 1984) 
* "Muhammad a cikin Pantheon na Madagascar" (Muhammad a mu Pantheon ya Madagascar, 1984) 
* "Focus a cikin Malagasy da Proto-Austronesian" (1986) 
* Dryry ya yi amfani da tankar tanki: misjon og sprak (A Door between Thoughts: Mission and Language, 1987) 
* "Bantu Substratum a cikin Malagasy" (1988) 
* *Norsklærer don mutane med morsmål* (Norwegian for Speakers of Other Languages, 1990) 
* "Mizara daga Kalimantan zuwa Madagascar" (1991) 
* *Kulturminner: ƙin yarda da ƙira?*  (Al'adun Al'adu: Matattu Ragowar Ko Rayayyu?, 2001) 

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