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Southern Samo Language Contact
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 Samo, an Eastern Mande language, is insularly enclosed predominantly by Gur languages. Considering the fact that Samo has close contact with several dominant languages intense language borrowing should be likely.
Sabine Hoeth
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Settlement histories and ethnic frontiers [PDF]
, 2006 One of the powerful conventional images of pre-colonial Africa is that of a continent of more or less immobile ethnic groups, living since time immemorial on their ancestral lands, steeped in their traditional cultures. In this image, Africa appears like
Lentz, Carola
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Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal [PDF]
, 2018 This poster outlines the international research collaboration between Boston University, the West African Research Center, and local experts in Senegal during a 15 month project --funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme-- to ...
Castro, Eleni, Ngom, Fallou
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Testing orthographies in the Nko and Roman scripts
Mandenkan, 2012 There is, historically, a wide variation in the proposals concerning tonal orthography design in Mande languages using the Roman script. Few of these proposals are based on the results of empirical reading tests.
Joseph D. Hoover
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Living a Kulango Life: Examples of Socialization under the Shadow of the Laasagyo [PDF]
, 2016 The Kulango of Nassian, a Gur people living mainly in the North-Eastern territo- ry of modern Ivory Coast, with a few villages scattered along the border in Gha- na, are sedentary horticulturalists, whose relationships with the plant-kingdom they live in,
Micheli, Ilaria
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Notes on regular polysemy and homonymy (Mande languages)
Language in Africa, 2020 Based on Mande languages as an example, the article examines the possibilities of using regular polysemy and regular homonymy for solving problems of comparative studies and semantic typology. Three cases are investigated. Regular polysemy noted only in Mande languages can be used for semantic reconstruction of Proto-Mande. Regular homonymy, noted only
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5. Tonal inflection in Mande languages: The cases of Bamana and Dan-Gwɛɛtaa [PDF]
, 2016 openaire +3 more sources
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Research examining the complexities and operational structures of civil–military coordination within large‐scale disaster response frameworks in Canada remains scant. This study addresses this gap by critically evaluating existing civil–military coordination mechanisms, identifying systemic deficiencies, and proposing evidence‐based strategic ...
C. Emdad Haque +2 more
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The Future of AI in the GCC Post‐NPM Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Kuwait and the UAE
Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT Comparative evidence of how two Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states translate artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions into post–New Public Management (post‐NPM) outcomes are scarce because most studies focus on Western democracies. To fill this gap, we examine constitutional, collective choice, and operational rules that shape AI uptake in ...
Mohammad Rashed Albous +2 more
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
, 2010 This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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