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Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Chad Basin, lying within the bidirectional corridor of African Sahel, is one of the most populated places in Sub-Saharan Africa today. The origin of its settlement appears connected with Holocene climatic ameliorations (aquatic resources) that
Mulligan Connie J +5 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Paul Newman
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The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]
Science, 2009 Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
Tishkoff SA +24 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2002 Morphological palatalization is a phenomenon whereby palatal articulation (fronting of vowels, adding palatalization as a secondary articulation to consonants, changing alveolars to alveopalatals) is a property associated with an entire morpheme, not ...
Russell G. Schuh
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Chadic languages and Y haplogroups. [PDF]
Eur J Hum Genet, 2010 The January 2009 publication in this journal of an article entitled ‘Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages', by Cruciani et al,1 represents a major step forward in our understanding of the African Y haplogroup diversity and pre-history ...
Lancaster A.
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Non-verbal sentences in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1992 The non-verbal sentences are sentences in which there is no explicit aspect marking and no verb. The predicate position of such sentences is usually filled by nouns, noun phrases, prepositional phrases or adverbials.
Nina Pawlak
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Did Proto-Chadic have velar nasals and prenasalised obstruents?
Afrika und Übersee, 2022 Ever since the Afroasiatic affiliation of Chadic as a whole was suggested by Joseph H. Greenberg in his seminal re-classification of African languages since the 1950s and has been generally accepted, i.e.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Initial findings on the Boor language
Afrika und Übersee, 2021 This article provides the first published information on Boor, an Eastern Chadic language spoken in a single village in the Moyen Chari Region of Chad.
James Roberts
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The classification of the Masa group of languages
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The Chadic family of languages comprises approximately 140 languages classified into three major branches: West Chadic, Biu-Mandara, and East Chadic.
Aaron Shryock
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Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 Kotoko is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in the region just south of Lake Chad. Based on an analysis of a corpus of texts with helpful input from a mother tongue speaker of the language, this paper presents the forms and functions of conditional ...
Sean Allison
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