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Cushitic loans in South Nilotic revisited [PDF]

Afrika und Übersee
This article explores lexical contact between Cushitic and Nilotic taking the proposed Cushitic language Proto Baz as point of departure. Proto Baz is a putative East Cushitic language proposed by Heine, Rottland & Vossen (1979), on the basis of words ...
Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold
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Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language

Studies in African Linguistics, 1988
Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non ...
Torben Andersen
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Bayesian Estimation of True Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors for Leptospira spp. Among Slaughterhouse Workers and Slaughtered Cattle in the Bahr El Ghazal Region of South Sudan. [PDF]

Zoonoses Public Health
ABSTRACT Introduction Leptospirosis is a major but under‐reported zoonotic disease, and epidemiological data from South Sudan remain limited. This study estimated the true prevalence of Leptospira spp. exposure and identified associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers and slaughtered cattle in Western Bahr El Ghazal. Methods A cross‐sectional
Onafruo D, Klein J, Kostoulas P, Erume J, Kokas I, Jubara A, Sánchez Romano J, Odoch T, Kitale E, Marin P, Sabbath E, Kankya C.   +11 more
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Cohort profile: a community-based prospective cohort study of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement Behav Socioecon Aging
Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
Ikanga J, Obenauf C, Patel SS, Schwinne M, Gikelekele G, Epenge E, Potshi JM, Tomadia T, Kazadi J, Kavugho I, Santolini GL, Nkosi A, Sabowa FM, Musewu BM, Mawisa E, Tsangu JP, Beya FMK, Mampunza S, Mananga L, Bukabau J, Teunissen CE, Karikari T, Gross AL, Rojas JC, Alonso A.   +24 more
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Nilotic Aegyptiaca And Water Features In The Roman Garden [PDF]

, 2022
Within recent decades, scholarship on Roman art and décor has evolved to look at objects and images contextually rather than individually, and this concept has been extended to looking especially at art in the Roman home or domus.
Booth, Amelia, NC DOCKS at Appalachian State University   +1 more
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Cultural Threads: An Afrocentric Paradigm for Integrating Social Justice Principles in the Practice of Family Therapy in Africa. [PDF]

J Marital Fam Ther
ABSTRACT Family therapy has been slowly but steadily growing on the African continent. Considering Africa's rich yet complex economic, political, and sociocultural history, it is essential for family therapy practitioners to integrate social justice (SJ) principles into their research, training, and practice of family therapy.
Asiimwe R, McIntosh DL, Nyambura RG, Kasujja R.   +3 more
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Burchardt LS, Paschen L, Fuchs S.
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Datives in Nilotic in a typological perspective [PDF]

, 2009
Amongst the set of widespread derivational extensions on verbs in Nilotic, there is one prototypically marking an event directed towards some individual or a location, usually referred to as the Dative marker in the study of this language family.
Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.
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Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Rogei DS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak

Studies in African Linguistics, 1999
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
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