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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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Mitochondrial DNA D-Loop Polymorphisms among the Galla Goats Reveals Multiple Maternal Origins with Implication on the Functional Diversity of the HSP70 Gene. [PDF]
Genet Res (Camb)Despite much attention given to the history of goat evolution in Kenya, information on the origin, demographic history, dispersal route, and genetic diversity of Galla goats remains unclear. Here, we examined the genetic background, diversity, demographic history, and population genetic variation of Galla goats using mtDNA D‐loop and HSP70 single ...
Masila EM +5 more
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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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The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract A classic example of the arbitrary relation between the way a word sounds and its meaning is that microorganism is a very long word that refers to a very small entity, whereas whale is a very short word that refers to something very big. This example, originally presented in Hockett's list of language's design features, has been often cited ...
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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Adding Visual Information to Improve Multimodal Machine Translation for Low‐Resource Language
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Machine translation makes it easy for people to communicate across languages. Multimodal machine translation is also one of the important directions of research in machine translation, which uses feature information such as images and audio to assist translation models in obtaining higher quality target languages.
Xiayang Shi +2 more
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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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Zamucoan Person Marking as a Perturbed System*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 265-288, August 2021., 2021 Abstract This paper analyzes the Zamucoan system of Person markers: personal pronouns, verbal and possessive inflection. Comparing the three documented languages (Ayoreo and Chamacoco, currently spoken, and extinct Old Zamuco), one can reconstruct for a very ancient stage of this language family an agglutinating structure for both personal pronouns and
Pier Marco Bertinetto
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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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Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic
Afrika und Übersee, 2021 This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development.
Matthew Harley
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