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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity [PDF]
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva +20 more
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Cephalometric Characteristics of Various Ethnic Groups in Tanzania [PDF]
International Journal of Dentistry, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the craniofacial skeletal profile features of the Tanzanian population with normal occlusion using lateral skull cephalograms, to determine the differences in craniofacial characteristics among various Tanzanian ethnic groups, and to compare the cephalometric norms of Caucasians with those of ...
Ali Khamis Hamad +4 more
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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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Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT
Glossa, 2016 Through analyses of dental harmony in four Nilotic languages, this paper argues both for contrastive representations and for a stratal version of Optimality Theory.
Sara Mackenzie
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The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al.
Helga Schröder
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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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Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the
Washington Onyango-Ouma +1 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
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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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Datives in Nilotic in a typological perspective
, 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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