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CLDF dataset derived from Kraft's "Chadic Wordlists" from 1981

, 2021
Cite the source of the dataset as: Kraft, Charles H. 1981. Chadic wordlists.
Kraft, Charles H.
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Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa

Studies in African Linguistics, 1990
Internal factors involving phonotactic asymmetries and irregular morphological alternations suggest that final */uu/ in Hausa historically lowered to /oo/ when the preceding syllable contained /aa/, e.g. *kwaacfoo 'frog' < *kwaacfuu.
Paul Newman
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Rituals as Dance and Dance as Rituals. The Drama of Kok Nji and Other Festivals in the Religious Experience of the Ngas, Mupun and Mwaghavul in Nigeria

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996
Chadic-speakers perform annual festivals of the ancestors, kok nji; cropping kop; harvesting, dyip and hunting kwat, which are usually accompanied by dancing, singing and other numerous rites and rituals.
Umar Danfulani
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Lo spazio della ricerca nell'area kushi (Nigeria): lingua, comunità e documentazione [PDF]

Ethnorêma, 2017
There are two questions that fieldwork researchers committed to the documentation and description of a minority language ask themselves before venturing into the depth of their projects: 'Whom am I dealing with?', immediately followed by 'Where am I ...
Gian Claudio Batic
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Marginal notes on Chadic lexical roots with *n- (Addenda et corrigenda to O.V. Stolbova’s Chadic Lexical Database, Issue I: L, N, NY, R)

, 2008
Hungarian Academy of ScienceEötvös Loránd UniversityThis paper examines the Afro-Asiatic etymologies of Chadic lexical roots discussed by Olga V. Stolbova in her Chadic Lexical Database, Issue I (2005). The analysis is arranged according to the following
Takács, Gábor
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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)
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The Benue-Gongola-Chad Basin : zone of ethnic and linguistic compression

, 2006
We wish to emphasize the fact that so far our investigations have concentrated on documenting large bodies of data covering a number of linguistic units in an area which - as we hope to have demonstrated - displays a highly complex linguistic and ethnic ...
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann, Leger, Rudolf
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Reviews

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2008
Fr. Andrzej Halemba, Mambwe Folk-Tales (Mambwe Version), Warszawa, Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna “Adam”, 2005, 303 pp; Mambwe Folk-Tales (English Version), Warsaw, Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna “Adam”, 2005, 351 pp. (Stanislaw Pilaszewicz), p. 75.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz, Izabela Will, Laura Łykowska, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk   +3 more
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Tone Sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi

Studies in African Linguistics, 1993
Within the theoretical framework of nonlinear phonology, this paper proposes an account of tone sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi, a Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria. The database is Hoffman's Grammar of the Margi Language.
Bernard Tranel
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Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic)

, 2006
The paper presents an in-depth study of focus marking in Gùrùntùm, a West Ch adic language spoken in Bauchi Province of Northern Nigeria. Focus in Gùrùntùm is marked morphologically by means of a focus marker a, which typically precedes the focus ...
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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