Imelda Udoh

**Imelda Icheji Lawrence Udoh** (amụrụ n'April 24, 1960) bụ Prọfesọ nke Linguistics na Asụsụ Naijiria nke Faculty of Arts, Mahadum Uyo, Naijiria .   Ọ na-eje ozi dị ka onye isi oche nke Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN).  Ọ bụkwa onye otu ndụ na Fellow nke Nigerian Academy of Letters .      Ọ bụ onye gụsịrị akwụkwọ na DAAD ma rụọ ọrụ dị ka Onye isi nke Ngalaba Linguistics na Asụsụ Naijiria site na 2010 ruo 2014, dị ka osote Dean nke Faculty of Arts site na 2010 gaa 2013, na osote onye nduzi, School of Continuing Education (2015-2016) nke Mahadum ahụ.   N'ime nnyocha ya, o kwuru na "asụsụ obodo Naịjirịa yiri ka ha na-anwụ n'ebe ụfọdụ, mana ha ka na-eto nke ọma n'ebe ndị ọzọ". Udoh kwadoro maka nchebe nke asụsụ ụmụ amaala ndị a mgbe ọ na-enye 81st Inaugural Lecture nke Mahadum Uyo. Udoh bụkwa onye otu Council of the West African Linguistic Society. A haziri festschrift iji sọpụrụ ya na 2019.

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Imelda Udoh na Eprel 24, 1960 na Adadama na Abi Local Government Area nke Cross River State .  Ọ gara St Bernard's Primary School, Adadama, Convent School, Ogoja na Convent School. N'afọ 1973, ọ gara Annunciation Girls" Juniorate, Ogoja ruo afọ anọ, wee nweta asambodo ụlọ akwụkwọ West African na Ogidi Girls" Secondary School, Ogidi na Anambra State. Ọ gara Mahadum Calabar ebe ọ nwetara nzere bachelọ na asụsụ (1983); nzere masta na asụsụ (1986); na nzere doctor nke nkà ihe ọmụma (1998). Udoh nwetakwara asambodo na English Phonetics site na Mahadum College, London, n'otu afọ ahụ. O nwekwara asambodo na DIES/DAAD International Deans’ Course on Higher Education Management (Osnabrück University, Germany, 2012); Asambodo na Akwụkwọ Asụsụ (Mahadum Texas na Arlington, USA, 2014); na Asambodo na Global Academy in Teaching Excellence (Mahadum Wright State, Ohio, USA, 2015) 

## Ọrụ
E were Imelda Udoh n'ọrụ dịka osote onye nkuzi na Mahadum Cross River State n'afọ 1986. O mechara gaa Mahadum Calabar n'afọ 1987. Ọ laghachiri na Mahadum Uyo n'afọ 1989 wee ruo n'ọkwa prọfesọ nke asụsụ na asụsụ Naịjirịa n'afọ 2007.  Ọ bụ onye ọbịa na-eme nnyocha na School of Oriental and African Studies, London, na 1996; ọkammụta nyocha na University College, London na 1999 na ọkammụta nleta postdoctoral na Mahadum California, Berkeley site na 2001 ruo 2002. Ọ bụ onye nkuzi na Institute of Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) na 2016 na Mahadum Alaska, Fairbanks, ebe o nyere usoro mmụta nke akpọrọ, "Akwụkwọ nke Orature". Ọ bụkwa onye nkuzi nleta na Mahadum Calabar site na 2007 ruo 2008 na 2016 ruo 2017. O kwuru okwu mmeghe nke 81 nke Mahadum Uyo nke akpọrọ, "Asụsụ ndị Naijiria dị ka Bricks For Building A National Identity". 

## Mmekọrịta na ndị otu
Udoh bụ onye otu na onye isi oche nke Linguistic Association of Nigeria site na 2021. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka odeakwụkwọ nke Association site na 2004 ruo 2008, na osote onye isi oche nke Association site n'afọ 2016 ruo 2021. Ọ bụ onye otu ndụ na onye otu Nigerian Academy of Letters. na onye otu Council of the West African Linguistic Society (WALS); Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN), na Nigerian Language Teachers' Association (ANLAT). Ọ bụ onye gụsịrị akwụkwọ na DAAD; na onye otu ndụ, yana Fellow nke Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL). 

## Enyemaka nyocha
Site n'ọtụtụ ọrụ, gụnyere Nigerian Languages Project (NLP), Lower Cross Languages Project, Abidjan-Bielefeld-Uyo Introduction to Language Documentation (ABUILD) Project, Michigan State University kwadoro Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Language Data (E-MELD) wdg, Udoh emeela nnyocha dị ukwuu na nkọwa na asụsụ akwụkwọ gbasara asụsụ nke Upper na Lower Cross River nke a na-asụ na Akwa Ibom na Cross States nke Nigeria. Ọrụ ya n'asụsụ dị iche iche dị ka Leggbó, Anaañ, Iko, Nkari, Ibibio, na Uda emeela ka e bipụta ọtụtụ akwụkwọ. Ọ na-ekwu maka asụsụ Upper Cross nke Cross-River State na asụsụ ndị pere mpe nke Naịjirịa, ọkachasị Leggbó .  Otu n'ime akwụkwọ ndị o dezigharịrị na-akọwa asụsụ ndị dị na mpaghara ndịda nke Naịjirịa, gụnyere asụsụ ndị a na-asụ na Eleme, Rivers na ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ. Mmasị nyocha ya ugbu a bụ na eserese asụsụ nke Naijiria site na iji teknụzụ Geographic Information Systems (GIS), nke ebumnuche ya bụ ịhazi na itinye n'ọrụ akụrụngwa mara ebe nke nwere ike ịrụ ọrụ n'oge, maka nkà mmụta asụsụ ka mma, na nlele anya nke ọnọdụ ndụ nke asụsụ. 

## Nhọpụta nchịkwa
Udoh served as Head of Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Uyo from 2010 to 2014, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2010 to 2013 and Deputy Director, School of Continuing Education from 2015 to 2016 of the same University. Ọ rụọla ọrụ dịka onyeisi oche n'ọtụtụ mmemme nzere nke National Universities Commission, ọ rụkwara ọrụ dịka onye otu Governing Council nke Mahadum Uyo, site na 2015 ruo 2017, tinyekwara onye ọsụ ụzọ na Governing Council nke Mahadum Ritman, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, site na 2015 ruo 2019.

## Editorial nke akwụkwọ akụkọ agụmakwụkwọ
Udoh nwere isiokwu ndị ọgbọ nyochara maka mbipụta n'ọtụtụ akwụkwọ akụkọ mpaghara, mba, na mba ụwa nke ọ na-eje ozi na bọọdụ nchịkọta akụkọ. Site na 2005 ruo 2019, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka Onye isi nchịkọta akụkọ nke USEM Journal of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. Na mgbakwunye, ọ na-eje ozi dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ ọbịa maka Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (JOLAN) na onye isi nchịkọta akụkọ nke Journal of Nigerian Languages Project (JNLP). 

## Akwụkwọ ndị ọzọ

# Udoh, Imelda Icheji Lawrence (2016). "Globalization and the Preservation of Nigerian Languages", na Ozo-mekuri Ndimele (Ed.) Convergence: English and Nigerian Language: A Festschrift for Munzali A. Jibril. Naịjirịa: M & J Grand Orbit Communications. peeji nke 173-182.&nbsp;
# Udoh, I.I.L., Anyanwu, O. N., na Ndimele, O, (2014). *Okwu ndị dị oke egwu na ọmụmụ nke asụsụ, asụsụ na akwụkwọ na Naijiria: Festschrift maka Conrad Max Benedict Brann. * Muenchen: LINCOM Europe.
# Ekpenyong, M. E. na Udoh, I.I.L. (2022). *Nsogbu ndị dị ugbu a na Nkọwa Asụsụ na Digital Humanities: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Eno-Abasi Essien Urua.* Singapore: Springer.  
# Udoh, I. I. L. (2019). *Asụsụ ndịda Naịjirịa: profaịlụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị. * Uyo, Nigeria: Fruities' Publications Ltd. 
# Udoh, I. I. L. (2003). *Asụsụ nke mpaghara ndịda-ndịda nke Naịjirịa: profaịlụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị. * Lagos: Concept Publications. 
# [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] "Nhazi aha na Leggbo" na Paul Newman & Larry M. Hyman (ed.) *West African Linguistics: Akwụkwọ na nsọpụrụ nke Russell G. Schuh *. Columbus, Ohio: Nke Ngalaba Linguistics na Center for African Studies, Ohio State University bipụtara.  
# Njem, U. & Udoh, I. (2023). Baptism of Indigenous Languages into an Ideology: A Decolonial Critique of Missionary Linguistics in South-Eastern Nigeria. *Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, na Patriarchy na Asụsụ na Global South.* [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji] NY & London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.  
# Udoh, I., Ekpenyong, M., Urua, E.-A. , Adeniyi, H., Obiamalu, G., Yusuff, A., Anyanwu, O., & Obikudo, E. (2022). Ụzọ ọhụrụ maka ịkọwapụta gburugburu ebe obibi asụsụ na ihe ize ndụ na Naijiria: - gaa na ngwọta geospatial. Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, *3* (03). 
# Udoh, I. I. L. (2018). "Compounding in Leggbó" Na Eugene Buckley, Thera M. Crane na Jeff Good (ed.) Nkwupụta nhazi: akwụkwọ iji sọpụrụ Larry M. Hyman. Stanford, California:: CSLI Publications.
# Udoh, I. I. L. (2007). "Ịgbasa asụsụ zuru ụwa ọnụ na mmetụta ya na akwụkwọ asụsụ na Naịjirịa" na Etuk Nssien Etuk, Inyang Mbong Udofot, Alice Effiong Udosen (ed.) Mmụta na Naịjarịa na narị afọ nke 21: lekwasị anya na mkpa: festschrift na nsọpụrụ nke Prọfesọ Mbong A. Udofot (MNAE). Uyo, Nigeria: Abaam Publishing Co.

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