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Prof. Harry Stroomer is a linguist working on Semitic, Cushitic and Berber groups. His research is fieldwork oriented and has brought him to Egypt, Kenya, Somalia, Morocco and Yemen.
From 1978-1987 he worked on Cushitic languages (Oromo dialects, Burji and Somali). In 1978-1979, 1980 and 1983 he did fieldwork in Kenya, among the Boraana Oromo (Marsabit), the Orma Oromo (Tana River) and the Waata Oromo (near Malindi). The results of this fieldwork were published in a Ph.D. submitted in 1987 at Leiden University entitled: "A Comparative Study of Three Southern Oromo Dialects in Kenya". From Februari 1st, 2002 he is full professor of Afroasiatic, in particular Berber and the Semitic languages of Arabia and Ethiopia.
See: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/harry-stroomer#tab-1 (last checked 12/10/2017).