Bu: aka Zaranda (Chadic, South-Bauchi West): Wordlist and grammatical notes [PDF]
, 2008 Bu: also called Zaranda, is a Chadic language spoken in the South of Bauchi State, in Nigeria, belonging to the South-Bauchi West group of Chadic languages (Shimizu 1978).
Caron, Bernard
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Newman, Paul. 2022. Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics. 5th ed. Bloomington: IUScholarWorks. IV, 274 pp. DOI 10.5967/5q3g-t220. [PDF]
Folia Orientalia, 2023 Sergio Baldi
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Dymitr Ibriszimov (ed). "Topics in Chadic Linguistics IX. Papers from the 8th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Bayreuth, February 4–5, 2016". Köln 2019. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 84 p., Euro 24, 80, ISBN 978-3-89645-529-1 [PDF]
Folia Orientalia, 2023 S. Baldi
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Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages. [PDF]
Eur J Hum Genet, 2010 Cruciani F +9 more
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Review of "Ɓarawa lexicon: a wordlist of eight South Bauchi (West Chadic) languages: Boghom, Buli, Dott, Geji, Sayanci and Zul" by Ronald Cosper, Munich: LINCOM EUROPA, 1999 [PDF]
, 2002 Review of a wordlist of 8 south-Bauchi Chadic languages spoken in northern NigeriaRecension d'un liste de mots de 8 langues tchadiques Sud-Bauchi parlées au nord du ...
Caron, Bernard
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Manner demonstratives in Barayin (Chadic)
, 2020 Presented at the Dallas International Academic Lens (DIAL) conference, hosted online by Dallas International University, October 12 ...
Joseph Lovestrand
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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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Comparison, similarity and simulation in Zaar, a Chadic language of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2012 This paper discusses the linguistic expression of similarity, aka 'similative' in Zaar, a Chadic language spoken south of Bauchi State, in Northern Nigeria.
Caron, Bernard
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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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