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Le nom du souverain dans les parlers « kotoko » du Cameroun

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021
The so-called “Kotoko” group is located mainly in the far north of Cameroon, and marginally in Chad and Nigeria. It is composed of small fortified kingdoms built primarily in the West of the Lower Chari and the Lower Logone.
Henry Tourneux
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Historical inferences from traditions of origins of Tarok and some Chadic languages in Central Nigeria

Afrika und Übersee, 2020
Contact between the Tarokoid languages of Sur, Yangkam, Pe, Vaghat Cluster, Tarok and some Chadic languages found in southeast Plateau State of central Nigeria and its implications for the sketching of a history for the area is the main thesis of this ...
Selbut Longtau
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A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist

Linguistic Discovery, 2017
A Kushi-English-Hausa ...
Gian Claudio Batic
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The vowel system of Ndam

Afrika und Übersee
Ndam (Eastern Chadic, ISO [ndm]) displays an array of seven or nine surface vowels. However, the distribution and behavior of these vowels, as evidenced from morphophonemic data, shows that the inventory can be reduced to two basic vowels, /ə/ and /a ...
James Roberts
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A morphosyntactic description of Gizey (Chadic)

, 2023
Describing the morphosyntax of Gizey (Cameroon and chad), a Masa languoid of the Chadic branch of ...
Guillaume Guitang
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The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic

Studies in African Linguistics, 2006
No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Christopher Ehret
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Conditional constructions in Buwal

Studies in African Linguistics, 2017
This study examines the structure of conditional constructions in Buwal and their functions. Conditionals in Buwal can be divided into four major categories according to how they are marked: possible, counterfactual, necessary and concessive.
Melanie Viljoen
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Contact-induced disturbances in personal pronoun systems in the Chadic – Benue-Congo convergence zone in Central Nigeria

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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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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