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Scaling Laws in Language Families [PDF]
EntropyThis article investigates scaling laws within language families using data from over six thousand languages and analyzes emergent patterns observed in Zipf-like classification graphs.
Maelyson Rolim Fonseca dos Santos +1 more
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007 Review of Al-Amin Abu-Manga, Leoma Gilley. Anne Storch (eds), Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture. Proceedings of the 9th Nilo Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, 16-19 February 2004, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2006, 420 pp.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz
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High Levels of Genetic Diversity within Nilo-Saharan Populations: Implications for Human Adaptation [PDF]
American Journal of Human Genetics, 2020 Mathurin Koffi +2 more
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The morphology of argument marking in Zaghawa-Wagi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 This paper presents an analysis of the system of argument marking on the verb in Zaghawa. Zaghawa, also called Beria in the literature, is a Saharan language of the Nilo-Saharan language phylum spoken in the border region of Sudan and Chad.
Isabel Compes
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Heterosemy of case markers and clause-linkers in Andaandi (Nile Nubian)
Studies in African Linguistics, 2016 Case markers are usually associated with nouns or noun phrases but, as shown in Aikhenvald’s (2008) cross-linguistic study on “versatile cases”, case markers are also used as clause-linkers in a wide range of genetically diverse languages.
Angelika Jakobi, . El-Guzuuli
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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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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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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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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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Recent acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka pygmies. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Both anatomically modern humans and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori originated in Africa, and both species have been associated for at least 100,000 years. Seven geographically distinct H.
Sandra Nell +11 more
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