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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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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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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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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages [PDF]

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal ...
Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz   +3 more
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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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First Bantu Eisteddfod

, 2015
First Bantu Eisteddfod organised by the Joint Council of Europeans and Bantu, Zoutpansberg, programme and various certificates. Dated 22 June 1935.Four-page printed programme and various certificates of the first Bantu Eisteddfod1 online resource (10 ...

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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: an introduction

The chapter provides an introduction to the volume, sets out the contexts in which it is placed, and provides a short summary of the chapters included in it.
Guérois, Rozenn, Gibson, Hannah, Bloom Ström, Eva-Marie, Bloom Ström, Eva-Marie,, Marten, Lutz   +4 more
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Lexicography in Gabon : a survey [PDF]

, 2009
This paper traces the historical development of lexicography in Gabon. Gabon, like most African countries, is multilingual. The recent inventories of languages spoken in Gabon are those established by Jacquot (1978) and Kwenzi-Mikala (1998). According to
Mavoungou, Paul Achille, Assam, B. Nyangone   +1 more
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Aspect and Evidentiality in Four Bantu Languages

Fully grammaticalized, obligatory evidentiality systems are thought to be rare in the languages of Africa in general, and in the Bantu languages in particular.
Roth, Tim, Gunnink, Hilde, Kanijo, Ponsiano, Crane, Thera Marie   +3 more
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Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu

Studies in African Linguistics
This special issue addresses how evidentiality and mirativity are expressed in various Bantu languages. Both the notions of evidentiality and mirativity remain underexamined for the Bantu languages – the following quote is quite typical: “It appears ...
Hannah Gibson, Jenneke van der Waal
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