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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Linguistique et langues africaines, 2019
This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes. Based on the synchronic vowel systems of its descendants, the most economic reconstruction would be 5 vowels, as all present-day varieties within the KLC have 5 ...
Koen Bostoen
exaly   +5 more sources

Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony

Languages
This paper provides a comparative and diachronic account of reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster, a genealogically closely related group of 40+ West Coastal Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom
exaly   +5 more sources

Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]

Africana Linguistica, 2015
It is shown how past lexicostatistic efforts eventually led to lexically-driven phylogenetic classifications of the Bantu languages. As a new case study, 95 North-West and West Bantu language varieties are sampled across geographical space, with a focus on the wider Lower Congo region. This leads to the discovery of a discrete clade within West-Coastal
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver
exaly   +4 more sources

Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2019
AbstractThe systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Kikongo.
Koen Bostoen, Heidi Goes
exaly   +3 more sources

Delivery and Safety of a Two-Dose Preventive Ebola Virus Disease Vaccine in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Participants during an Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]

Vaccines
During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, residents in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, were offered a two-dose prophylactic EVD vaccine. This was the first study to evaluate the safety of this vaccine in pregnant women.
Hugo Kavunga-Membo, Deborah Watson-Jones, Kambale Kasonia, Tansy Edwards, Anton Camacho, Grace Mambula, Darius Tetsa-Tata, Edward Man-Lik Choi, Soumah Aboubacar, Hannah Brindle, Chrissy Roberts, Daniela Manno, Benjamin Faguer, Zephyrin Mossoko, Pierre Mukadi, Michel Kakule, Benith Balingene, Esther Kaningu Mapendo, Rockyath Makarimi, Oumar Toure, Paul Campbell, Mathilde Mousset, Robert Nsaibirni, Ibrahim Seyni Ama, Kikongo Kambale Janvier, Babajide Keshinro, Badara Cissé, Mateus Kambale Sahani, John Johnson, Nicholas Connor, Shelley Lees, Nathalie Imbault, Cynthia Robinson, Rebecca F. Grais, Daniel G. Bausch, Jean Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum   +35 more
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Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]

Africana Linguistica, 2015
In this article we examine variation in the expression of tense and aspect (TA) in 23 modern and two historical Bantu language varieties belonging to Guthrie’s B40, H10 and H30 groups in order to shed light on the internal classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC). We apply the Comparative Method to this specific set of morphological data to
Sebastian Dom
exaly   +4 more sources

How ‘person’ got into focus: Grammaticalization of clefts in Lingala and Kikongo areas

Linguistics, 2015
AbstractIn several Bantu languages in the regions where Kikongo and Lingala are spoken, we encounter sentences where the word ‘person’ can appear after the subject of a canonical SVO sentence, resulting in a focused interpretation of the subject. Synchronically, we analyze this as a monoclausal focus construction with moto ‘person’ as a focus marker ...
Jenneke Van Der Wal
exaly   +2 more sources

Seventeenth-Century Kikongo Is Not the Ancestor of Present-Day Kikongo

, 2018
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver, Koen Bostoen, Inge Brinkman   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Typology and Evolution of Diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Africana Linguistica, 2021
This article proposes both a typology of the variation which languages of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) manifest in terms of diminutive marking and a reconstruction of how this variation evolved through time. The high diversity of diminutives within this low‑level Bantu subgroup parallels the variation documented for the entire Bantu family.
Goes, Heidi, Bostoen, Koen
openaire   +2 more sources

Missionárias brasileiras em Angola

Revista de Educação Popular, 2021
O artigo apresenta reflexões sobre práticas interculturais em Angola (África) narradas em 2008 por trinta religiosas da Congregação das Irmãs Catequistas Franciscanas (CICAF), ano em que a Congregação celebrava 25 anos de presença missionária entre os ...
Claricia Otto
doaj   +1 more source