Ayo Bamgbose

**Ayọ̀ Bámgbó** (an haife shi a ranar 27 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1932) masanin ilimin harshe ne, farfesa na farko na ilimin harshe a Ƙasar Najeriya. Ya ba da gudummawa ga ilimi da ilimin harshe, ya sami karbuwa ta hanyar girmamawa da zaɓe ga ofisoshi a cikin ƙungiyoyin ƙwararru.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Bamgbose a Yankin Odopotu, kusa da Ijebu Ode a Jihar Ogun ta ƙasar Najeriya a cikin Shekarar 1932. Mahaifinsa, Rev. Sangodipe Bamgbose, ya kasance shugaban al'umma na Odopotu, wanda aka haife shi a cikin sanannen dangin masu bautar Egungun. Sunan ƙarshe Bamgbose, wanda ke nufin taimaka mini in ɗauki sandar Shango, (ose), kuma sunan farko na mahaifinsa, wanda ke ma'anar Sango consoles, ya kuma nuna cewa iyalinsa sun bauta wa Sango, allahn tsawa. Bayan karatun firamare an shigar da Bamgbose, a cikin Shekara ta 1948, a Kwalejin St. Andrew. Ya cancanci zama malami na biyu a shekarar 1951. Daga nan sai ya sami shiga Jami'ar Ibadan, mai alaƙa da Jami'ar London. Ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na biyu na BA (Hons) na Turanci na Jami'ar London a shekara ta 1960. Ya ci gaba zuwa Jami'ar Edinburgh inda ya sami difloma a fannin ilimin harshe gaba ɗaya a Shekarar 1961 da kuma PhD a Shekarar 1963 tare da rubutun A Study of Structures and Classes in the Grammar of Modern Yoruba . 

Ya shiga ma'aikatan Jami'ar Ibadan a Shekarar b1963 a matsayin Malami, ya samu ci gaba da sauri zuwa matsayin Babban Malami a Shekarar 1966 da kuma Farfesa a 1968. Bayan ya yi ritaya daga Jami'ar, an girmama shi da taken Farfesa Emeritus . 

Babban gudummawar Bamgbose ga ilimi shine aikinsa akan tsarin yaren Yoruba. Daga cikin littattafansa ashirin da ɗaya, Grammar of Yoruba (Cambridge University Press, 1966) ya kasance classic a aikace-aikacen ilimin harshe na zamani ga Yoruba. Hakanan yana da mahimmanci shine Fonologi ati Girama Yoruba (University Press Ltd., Ibadan, 1990) wanda ke magance matsalar harshen harshe na ɗaliban Yoruba. Halinsa ya bayyana a cikin Orthographies of Nigerian Languages [Efik, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba] (National Language Center, Legas, 1981), Language and the Nation (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), da Language and Exclusion (LIT Verlag, 2000). Bamgbose ya kuma rubuta takardu ko surori sama da guda 130 a cikin littattafai.

## Daraja da nasarorin da aka samu
A shekara ta 1984, Farfesa Bamgbose ya zama masanin harshe na farko a Afirka  da aka ba shi memba na girmamawa na Linguistic Society of America (LSA). A shekara ta 2000, an zaɓe shi a matsayin shugaban Afirka na farko na Ƙungiyar Turanci ta Duniya . A shekara ta 2003, an zaɓe shi Mataimakin Shugaban Kwamitin harshen Duniya na ƙasa na biyu, karo na farko da aka girmama masanin harsuna na Afirka. A shekara ta 2009, an zaɓe shi Shugaban Gidauniyar Majalisar Malamai ta Kwalejin Harsunan Afirka (ACALAN). Har ila yau, memba ne na kwamitin zartarwa na Kwalejin Harafi ta Najeriya wanda shi ne memba na tushe. Shi kaɗai ne ya karɓi lambar yabo ta Najeriya a shekarar 1990.

## Shahararrun Nomin Ziyarar

* Farfesa mai ziyara a Jami'ar Hamburg a 1979-80
* Ziyarar Fellow zuwa Clare Hall, Jami'ar Cambridge a cikin 1987-88
* George A. Miller Farfesa mai ziyara a Jami'ar Illinois, Urbana-Champaign a 1993-95
* Ziyarar Farfesa a Jami'ar Leipzig a 1997-1999.

## Manazarta