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'Rice,' 'sorghum,' 'pearl millet' and 'finger millet' in Nilo-Saharan

, 2023
This study overviews the geographical distribution of the terms for four major types of crops cultivated in Africa, ‘rice,’ ‘sorghum,’ ‘pearl millet’ and ‘finger millet’ in Nilo-Saharan languages. Most Nilo-Saharan languages lack a native term for ‘rice,’ but a number of languages attest a loanword from Arabic or Swahili.
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Sociétés et rites funéraires : le Nil moyen (Soudan) du Néolithique à l’Islamisation

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2016
This article tests the relevance of an approach integrating ethnohistory and archeology, in a regional ethnoarchaeological and linguistic framework following a logicist type demonstration.
Alain Gallay
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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal

Studies in African Linguistics, 2003
Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
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Internal structures of relative clause in Zarma

Linguistik Online
Although extensive works have been done on languages of the Nilo-Saharan family with generalizations made about the defining characteristics of their relative clauses, little can be said of this in relation to Zarma despite being a member language of ...
Waheed Ayisa Jayeola
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Ghost segments in Sengwer nouns

Glossa
Like other Kalenjin languages, Sengwer has a complex and understudied noun morphology which makes use of an abundance of affixes as well as word-internal tone and ATR changes.
Bert Remijsen, Federico Falletti
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Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 28, Issue S2, July 2025.
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Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009
Background Chad Basin, lying within the bidirectional corridor of African Sahel, is one of the most populated places in Sub-Saharan Africa today. The origin of its settlement appears connected with Holocene climatic ameliorations (aquatic resources) that
Mulligan Connie J, Hájek Martin, Costa Marta D, Fernandes Verónica, Černý Viktor, Pereira Luísa   +5 more
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Introduction: Special Issue on the 16th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium

The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics
The papers in this collection result from talks that were presented at the 16th NiloSaharan Colloquium, Nairobi, which was organized by a team of colleagues from the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne and the Department of Linguistics and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ...
Isabel Compes, Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Fauna in Beja Lexicon’

Folia Orientalia
The contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with zoological terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Definiteness in the Zarma determiner phrase

Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019
Adjectives in definite Determiner Phrases of Zarma, a Nilo-Saharan language trigger an additional (suffixed/base-merged) lexical determiner; in the event of adjectives modifying nouns, definite determiners can occur with either the nouns or the ...
Waheed Ayisa Jayeola
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