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A phonological description of Naba
Afrika und Übersee, 2022 Naba, also known as Bilala, is a Nilo-Saharan (Sara-Bagirmi) language of Chad with about 410,000 speakers from three ethnic groups. This paper gives a basic description of the Naba phonological system, using segmental phonology and lexical phonology ...
Elaine Marie Scherrer
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Ethiopian population dermatoglyphic study reveals linguistic stratification of diversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The manifestation of ethnic, blood type, & gender-wise population variations regarding Dermatoglyphic manifestations are of interest to assess intra-group diversity and differentiation.
Seile Yohannes, Endashaw Bekele
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Majang nominal plurals with comparative notes
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 This paper describes the complex Majang system of noun plural formation. Majang uses singulative suffixes, plural suffixes, and suppletive plural stems to mark number on nouns.
Peter Unseth
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2012 Based on original field work, the paper provides a preliminary characterization of the grammar of Gwama, a little-researched Nilo-Saharan language of western Ethiopia belonging to the Koman language cluster.
Dirk Kievit, Erika Robertson
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Living Dictionaries: A Tutorial for Specialists in Nilo-Saharan Languages
, 2021 A presentation at the 2021 Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
Anderson, Gregory D.S. +1 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 7 No 1 (1998)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 1998 • H. Weiss Relieving but not preventing – Public famine relief in some British colonies in Africa up to 1930 • M. Vehnämäki Adjusted environment: Evidence from Ghana's structural adjustment program • A. M.
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Genome Biology, 2019 Background Africa is the origin of modern humans within the past 300 thousand years. To infer the complex demographic history of African populations and adaptation to diverse environments, we sequenced the genomes of 92 individuals from 44 indigenous ...
Shaohua Fan +16 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian
Glossa, 2018 This article treats a set of subject cross-referencing morphemes in the medieval Nilo-Saharan language Old Nubian, traditionally called “personal endings.” Based on an analysis of their syntactic distribution and morphology, I argue that this set can be ...
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
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Linguistic Discovery, 2015 This survey endeavours through field research along with a critical review of relevant literature to shed some light on the complicated socio-linguistic and language-geographic situation in the Begi–Tongo area in Western Ethiopia, and to suggest a more ...
Klaus-Christian Küspert
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