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Bantu-Khoisan contact in southern Africa

, 2019
<p>Before the arrival of Bantu languages, southern Africa was dominated by speakers of Khoisan languages, a group of three unrelated language families that share the typologically highly unusual feature of using click phonemes.
Gunnink, Hilde (8311815), Gunnink, Hilde
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The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi

Nordic Journal of African Studies
This paper studies the grammaticalization of possessive predicates into negative auxiliaries expressing main clause negation in the Bantu languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi River region.
Aron Zahran, Maud Devos, Rozenn Guérois
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Cohort profile: a community‐based prospective cohort study of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Alzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
Jean Ikanga, Caterina Obenauf, Saranya Sundaram Patel, Megan Schwinne, Guy Gikelekele, Emmanuel Epenge, Japhet Magolu Potshi, Topina Tomadia, Julie Kazadi, Immaculee Kavugho, Giovanni Luamba Santolini, Aristote Nkosi, Francine Manyonga Sabowa, Brenda Matungu Musewu, Elipsis Mawisa, Joseph Phuati Tsangu, Francis Muena Kondo Beya, Samuel Mampunza, Lelo Mananga, Justine Bukabau, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Thomas Karikari, Alden L. Gross, Julio C. Rojas, Alvaro Alonso   +24 more
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Bantu law : exploring the curricula [PDF]

, 1973
Item was scanned at 300 dpi. Scanner used HP Scanjet 5590PContemporary Bantu Law curricula are narrowed to a study of Bantu Customary Law, in particular the private law thereof. To these certain South African statute laws are added.
Labuschagne, J.M.T. (Johan Martin Trotske)
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The emergence of low focus position in the Mineirês dialect of Brazilian Portuguese

Isogloss
This article investigates whether the Mineirês dialect of Brazilian Portuguese activates a low focus position in a slot Immediately After the Verb (IAV).
Fábio Bonfim Duarte
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The locative system in Cuwabo and Makhuwa (P30 Bantu languages)

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2016
This article presents the locative morphosyntax of Cuwabo and Makhuwa (Bantu, North Mozambique), in a comparative perspective with a sample of other Bantu languages.
Rozenn Guérois
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S40-S49, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Reconstructing proto-Bantu

, 2019
Chapter 10 is about how to reconstuct Proto-Bantu, the putative most recent common ancestor of all Bantu languages, by using the Comparative Method.
Bostoen, KoeneditorLW210019932941238010019599620000-0003-2284-6165FB3B7690-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4, Bostoen, KoenLW210019932941238010019599620000-0003-2284-6165FB3B7690-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4, Nurse, Derekeditor, Philippson, Gérardeditor, Van de Velde, Markeditor   +4 more
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Idiosyncratic sound systems of the South African Bantu languages: Research and clinical implications for speech-language pathologists and audiologists

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2014
The objective of this article is to create awareness amongst speech-language pathologists and audiologists in South Africa regarding the difference between the sound systems of Germanic languages and the sound systems of South African Bantu languages.
Anita van der Merwe, Mia le Roux
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Resistance Ethics for a Decolonial Sociolinguistics

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 306-311, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethics is among those institutional categories of the research process that are perceived as inherently motivated by good intentions to protect, respect and safeguard the dignity and interests of research participants. However, the entanglements of the institution of research ethics with the broader project of the coloniality of universalism ...
Finex Ndhlovu
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