Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
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, Heidi Goes
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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
Dom, Sebastian, Bostoen, Koen A. G.
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Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony
LanguagesThis 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
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Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC): A diachronic phonological approach [PDF]
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 Gisamba (ISO 639-3: smx) is a nearly undocumented and undescribed as well as highly endangered Bantu language spoken in the Kwilu and Kwango provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Sifra Van Acker, Koen Bostoen
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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
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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
De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice +3 more
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A Historical-Comparative Approach to the Kikongo Language Cluster, with a Special Focus on Cabinda
Afrika Focus, 2023 Abstract My doctoral dissertation is aimed at gaining a better understanding of how the Kikongo Language Cluster (klc) as we know it today was shaped through time, with a special focus on Cabinda, Angola. It does so by adopting a historical-comparative linguistic approach to phonological, morphophonological and morphological variation which current-day
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Whole genomes from Angola and Mozambique inform about the origins and dispersals of major African migrations. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Tallman S +3 more
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The Genes of Freedom: Genome-Wide Insights into Marronage, Admixture and Ethnogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2021 Almeida J +6 more
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DNA methylation patterns associated with konzo in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
Clin Epigenetics, 2022 Kocher K +6 more
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