Since 02/2026
employee in the "The Linguistic (Pre-)History of the Indo-Iranian Frontier" project

04/2024 – 02/2026
M.A. in Indo-European Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg

09/2019 – 03/2023
B.A. in Indo-European Studies and Languages and Cultures of the Near East, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Language contact on the Indo-Iranian frontier: a study on the historical phonology of Prasun and Yidgha-Munji

My project investigates the phonological prehistory of Prasun, an aberrant Nuristani language spoken in the Hindu Kush, and its Iranian contact languages Munji and Yidgha. I aim to determine whether Prasun’s unusual features are due to recent restructuring and Iranian contact or reflect its position as the earliest branch of Nuristani. I also aim to reconstruct Proto-Yidgha-Munji from its two living, highly endangered descendants and their dialect continua, and investigate the relationship of Munji and Yidgha to Ancient Bactrian and their position within the contested East Iranian family tree.

2026
Baley, Julien & Alan Avdagic: The development of Sanskrit velars into Gāndhārī in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1–27

2025
Review of “O. Šefčík (2024), Preservation vs lenition: The development of Indo-European two-obstruent clusters. Baar, Hamburg”. Kratylos, 70, 20–30

2024
Avdagić, Alan & Felix Herold: Das Krimgotische – das Krimgermanische: Ein Kuckucksei? in: Was bleibt? Erinnerung in Ost- und Südosteuropa, 221–240