On April 19, Sara Pacchiarotti and Paulin Baraka Bose presented the results of Paulin’s 2024 fieldwork mission on Furu (fuu) (Central Sudanic, northwestern DRC) at the fourth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA) with a talk titled “The lexicon and phonology of Fulu: insights into the population history of a small-scale Central Sudanic language spoken in northwestern DR Congo“
The theme of PɸF 2025 was Sound Patterns and Human History. The workshop brought together scholars whose research examines the connection between human history, events, and migration (as evidenced from oral history, archeology, genetics, etc.) and large-scale areal zones of sound system convergence.