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Nasal Consonant Processes in Kitharaka

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002
The paper discusses three processes that make nasal consonants and especially /n/ the most dynamic area of Kitharaka (a Bantu language spoken in Kenya) phonology.
Kithaka wa Mberia
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Mobilizing Ubuntu as the Unifying Language for the Descendants of Bantu during Xenophobic/Afrophobic Attacks in South Africa

, 2022
Udoh James, Sazelo Michael
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The Bantu Languages [PDF]

African Affairs, 1919
H. H. Johnston, Alice Werner
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An overview of the Bantoid languages

Afrika und Übersee
The Bantoid languages are a body of some 150-200 languages positioned geographically between Nigeria and Cameroun. They do not form a genetic group, but all are in some way related to Bantu more closely than other branches of Benue-Congo.
Roger Blench
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Considerazioni per uno studio delle lingue bantu

Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2014
This work is broadly divided into two parts. The first one discusses the typical features which characterize Bantu languages, in particular analysing the criteria which have been individuated in order to classify a given language as Bantu.
Gloria Cocchi
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The Consonant Inventory of Proto-Tsonga-Copi

Languages
Recent studies have greatly furthered our understanding of the Southern Bantu languages, but questions about the internal relationships of the Southern Bantu language subgroups and the validity of the clade as a whole still remain. This study attempts to
Isaac Eaton
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Towards a Part-of-Speech Ontology

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2012
This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South African Bantu group: Northern ...
Gertrud Faaß, Sonja Bosch, Elsabé Taljard   +2 more
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The sounds of the Bantu languages

, 2019
Chapter 3 is about the sounds of Bantu languages. Many Bantu languages have relatively simple segmental inventories. However, internal developments and external influences create considerable diversity in consonantal and vocalic patterns. Depressor consonants, ATR/RTR vowels, prenasalised stops, ejectives and clicks are among the sounds that have been ...
Maddieson, I, Sands, B
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Lexicalisation of crop names in Bena, Hehe, and Sangu societies of Tanzania

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper examines the names of crops in the Bantu languages Bena, Hehe, and Sangu. This was sparked by the realisation that certain crops are native to Africa while others were introduced to inland Bantu languages through interactions with coastal ...
Adriano Utenga, Amani Lusekelo
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An Algorithm For Building Language Superfamilies Using Swadesh Lists [PDF]

, 2020
The main contributions of this thesis are the following: i. Developing an algorithm to generate language families and superfamilies given for each input language a Swadesh list represented using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) notation. ii. The
Mutabazi, Bill
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