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The interaction of number and gender in Katcha
Studies in African Linguistics, 2018 The Kadu languages of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have been the subject of an ongoing controversy regarding whether they should be classified as Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, or as an independent family.
Darryl Turner
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The diversity of Maa (Nilotic) adverbs
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 Maa linguistic varieties (Maasai, Parakuyo, Chamus, Samburu, among others), of the Eastern Nilotic family (Nilo-Saharan phylum), have words which can modify a predicate or predication and have the function of what cross-linguistically are called adverbs.
Doris Payne
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.This study analyzed HLA class II genes in over 1,000 individuals from 23 African populations, revealing genetic diversity influenced by geography, culture, and environment, with a significant link between Plasmodium falciparum prevalence and variation at the DPB1 gene.
Thomas Goeury +11 more
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V1 in Kipsigis: Head movement and discourse-based scrambling
Glossa, 2019 Kipsigis (Nilo-Saharan, Kenya) is a verb-initial language that exhibits a VSO/VOS alternation, in which the felicity of postverbal word orders is dependent on information structure.
Madeline Bossi, Michael Diercks
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Unlocking the Ik instrumental case
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Ik, a Kuliak (Nilo-Saharan) language spoken by roughly 7000 people in northeastern Uganda, has up to now been described as having a case system with seven cases (König 2002, 2008).
Terrill Schrock
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Folia OrientaliaThe contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Survival versus sustaining: A multidisciplinary inquiry of the environmental dilemma in rural Uganda
Natural Resources Forum, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1226-1243, November 2024.Abstract The livelihoods of the majority of Uganda's population depend on declining environmental resources. The sustainability of the natural environment requires that the people who are interdependent with it, as well as the structures of governance and leadership around them, understand the implications of resource degradation and take deliberate ...
Vincent B. Muwanika +7 more
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2003 Review of "Christopher Ehret, A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan, "Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika/SUGIA", Beiheft 12, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001, xvii + 663 pp."
Nina Pawlak
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 980-995, October 2024.Africans are extremely underrepresented in global genomic research. African populations face high burdens of communicable and non‐communicable diseases and experience widespread polypharmacy. As population‐specific genetic studies are crucial to understanding unique genetic profiles and optimizing treatments to reduce medication‐related complications ...
Sumudu Rangika Samarasinghe +5 more
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