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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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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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The importance of wild meat and freshwater fish for children's nutritional intake in the Congo Basin
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Wild meat and freshwater fish are widely consumed in the Congo Basin, but in some areas, they are at risk of disappearing due to unsustainable hunting and fishing and changes in their habitat. Wild meat is also at risk of being eliminated from local diets due to potential policy changes such as wild meat bans.
Amy Ickowitz +6 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In Central Africa, human activities are severely impacting terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, threatening the food security of millions of people. Accordingly, sustainable use of wildlife is crucial for the nutrition and livelihoods of many rural communities in the region.
Zolo Admettons +9 more
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A Method for Resourcing Sustainable Cities in Rwanda Through Informal Settlement Upgrading
npj Urban SustainabilityMeeting targets under SDG 11 depends on qualitative improvements implemented through planning and design processes. In many less developed countries (LDCs), the upgrading of informal settlements has potential to make significant gains towards SDG 11, but
Garret Gantner, Costanza La Mantia
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsBased on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 1: Organic Corpus Building for Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two instalments will deal with the ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
Linguistics, 2022 In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
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Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a strategy for addressing landscape degradation. In contexts where ecological degradation overlaps with the deterioration of social cohesion, restoration must also contribute to rebuilding social ties alongside restoring ecosystems.
Valery Ndagijimana +3 more
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