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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
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Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]
, 2015 The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
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On the “Atypical” Imperative Verb Form in Manda
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper accounts for the atypical Imperative verb form found in Manda, a Bantu language spoken along the shores of Lake Nyasa in southern Tanzania.
Rasmus Bernander
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Prosodic marking of focus and givenness in Kinyarwanda and Rwandan English
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 This paper concentrates on whether systematic variations in pitch, intensity, and duration can be observed as a function of the focused or discourse-given status of a constituent in Kinyarwanda (Guthrie code JD.61), and a relatively recent variety of ...
Hamlaoui, Fatima +2 more
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
, 2019 The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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A Discourse Analysis of Three Past TAM Forms in Vwanji
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper presents data from Vwanji, an under-documented Bantu language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in southwestern Tanzania. Bantu languages are well known for having multiple degrees of past time reference grammaticalized in their TAM ...
Helen Eaton
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Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2022 In this article we offer an overview of the use of modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu (encompassing languages spoken from eastern Congo in the north-west to northern Mozambique in the south-east; viz.
Rasmus Bernander +2 more
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Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
, 2015 In this article we examine variation in the expression of tense and aspect (TA) in 23 modern and two historical Bantu language varieties belonging to Guthrie’s B40, H10 and H30 groups in order to shed light on the internal classification of the Kikongo ...
Bostoen, Koen, Dom, Sebastian
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2023 The Bantu expansion is the initial spread of the Bantu languages and the people speaking them from their original homeland in the border zone of modern‐day Nigeria and Cameroon over major parts of eastern and central Africa. This entry reviews the key evidence from historical linguistics, evolutionary genetics, and archaeology for this major demic ...
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Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study [PDF]
, 2010 Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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