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General overview of Nilo-Saharan
2023Abstract This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic.
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2020
AbstractInterspersed between two other major phyla on the African continent, Afro-Asiatic (mainly to the north) and Niger-Congo (mainly to the south), lies the Nilo-Saharan phylum. In this chapter a survey is presented of the major groups classified as members of this phylum by Greenberg and other authors in subsequent contributions.
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AbstractInterspersed between two other major phyla on the African continent, Afro-Asiatic (mainly to the north) and Niger-Congo (mainly to the south), lies the Nilo-Saharan phylum. In this chapter a survey is presented of the major groups classified as members of this phylum by Greenberg and other authors in subsequent contributions.
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Nilo-Saharan archaeolinguistics
Abstract Nilo-Saharan, one of three major language families on the African continent next to a range of smaller families and linguistic isolates, lies ‘sandwiched’ between the other two major families, Afroasiatic mainly to the north, and Niger-Congo mainly to the south. Contrary to Niger-Congo, the geographical spread of Nilo-Saharan isGerrit J. Dimmendaal, Hiba Babiker
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Nilo-Saharan Moveable kas a Stage lll Article (with a Penutian Typological Parallel)
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Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Conference, Bayreuth, Aug. 30.-Sept. 2, 1989
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Kabba : a Nilo-Saharan language of the Central African Republic
2003Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2003.
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Vowel Harmony in Nilo-Saharan Languages
Abstract Almost 70 Nilo-Saharan languages are cited in this chapter, several of which are mentioned because of a particular behavior in their vowel harmony (VH) system, whereas others are treated more elaborately with sets of examples. The great majority of the Nilo-Saharan languages have vowel systems with VH based on the feature [ATR].openaire +1 more source
On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages
2008There have been two attempts at reconstructing proto-Nilo-Saharan (pNS), yet they diverge widely. To illustrate the lack of consensus even at the level of cognate recognition among NS languages, I selected the Kunama word ukunkula “elbow” and found it to be included by several scholars in different etymologies which poorly overlap.
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Three Analyses of Underlying Plosives in Caning, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan
2017Caning (or Shatt), an Eastern Sudanic (Nilo-Saharan) language of Sudan, has bilabial, alveolar, palatal, and velar plosives, but it is not straightforward for which plosives (if any) there is an underlying voicing contrast. Three analyses that can be shown to account reasonably for the data.
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