Ian Hancock
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Ian Hancock (Romani Yanko le Redžosko) is a renowned linguist, Rom scholar, and human rights advocate.
Dr. Hancock grew up in England. He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Roma people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Clinton. He also represented the Roma people at the 1997 Rafto Prize award ceremony.
Aside from his seminal research on the Anglo-Romani language, Hancock is an internationally recognized scholar on creole languages. Hancock has done important research on the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa, the Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and the Afro-Seminole Creole language spoken in Southwest Texas. Hancock was the first scholar to recognize that a version of Gullah, he calls Afro-Seminole, is spoken by a community of Black Seminole descendants in Brackettville, Texas. Hancock later did research on another variety of Afro-Seminole spoken in a village called Nacimiento in the Mexican state of Coahuila.
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| NAME | Hancock, Ian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rejosko, Yanko le |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British linguist |
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