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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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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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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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Verbal Plurality in Chadic: Grammaticalisation Chains and Early Chadic History
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001 Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Language and migration : the impact of the Jukun on Chadic speaking groups in the Benue-Gongola basin [PDF]
, 2006 Our paper deals with the problems of migration, culture and language in the wider Benue-Gongola basin. Here are mainly concerned the West-Chadic speaking groups Kwami, Kupto, Kushi and Piya as well as the Jukun who speak a language belonging to the Benue-
Dinslage, Sabine, Leger, Rudolf
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Afrika und Übersee, 2020 The paper looks at personal pronoun systems in languages of the convergence zone on both sides of the borderline between Benue-Congo and Chadic. Focus is on inventories and systems, meaning the overall interrelationship of pronoun shapes across the ...
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Adorning the Body, Asserting Status: Prestige-Goods and Social Distinction at Ancient Chadic Chiefdom of Houlouf (Northern Cameroon) [PDF]
, 2020 Copper and alloyed copper artefacts, carnelian and glass beads have been recovered in archaeological excavations since the middle of the 20th century in the Chadian plain in northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria and southwestern Chad Republic.
A. F. Holl
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The subgrouping of East Chadic
Folia Orientalia, 2018 A genetic subgrouping of 16 East Chadic languages is proposed in this paper. Contrary to the popular lexicostatistical approach, and in order to take into account potentially different rates of lexical evolution in the individual languages, it is ...
C. Peust
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Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)
LingBaWIn Hausa language function words contribute to sentence structure mainly on the syntactic level. They can specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. The broad class of function words includes a sub-class of items known as Pragmatic Markers (PMs).
Patryk Zając
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Focus strategies in chadic : the case of tangale revisited [PDF]
, 2007 We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under ...
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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