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Les réflexes du proto-bantu en cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantu L231 (Kasaï Central, RD Congo)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 Cet article examine les réflexes des phonèmes du proto-bantu dans le cíbi nji cya ngúsú, une langue bantu classée L231 et parlée dans la province du Kasaï central en RD du Congo. Cet article présente une vue d›ensemble de la phonologie synchronique de cette langue, son système de vocalique, consonantique et tonal.
Onokoko Onyumbe, Michel +1 more
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A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary
Studies in African Linguistics, 2005 Despite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.).
Koen Bostoen
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Osculance in Bantu reconstructions
Studies in African Linguistics, 2001 In historical linguistics, variation functions as an indicator of historical evolution. The set of Proto-Bantu reconstructions contains multiple slightly divergent forms and/or meanings which supposedly have a common origin based on their strong ...
Koen Bostoen
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Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages.
Derek Nurse
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La reconstruction de quelques mots pour mortier en domaine Bantou
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This article proposes reconstructions of words for "mortar" in Bantu languages. Comparative research indicates that a nominal stem of the type *-du - -nu can be reconstructed on a Proto-Bantu level; however, data from related non-narrow Bantu languages ...
Annelies Bulkens
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Variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 In this paper, we discuss shifts in the formal relation, i.e. “correspondence” (Haspelmath 1993; Nichols et al. 2004), between members of noncausal/causal verb pairs in eight East Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom +3 more
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The History of Porridge in Bantuphone Africa, with Words as Main Ingredients
Afriques, 2014 The historical comparative-linguistic analysis of Bantu culinary vocabulary reveals that the stiff porridge widely consumed in Central and Southern Africa today as principal starch food was already known to the first Bantu speech communities.
Birgit Ricquier
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Flore Bollaert +2 more
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Underlying low tones in Ruwund
Studies in African Linguistics, 1994 In this paper the author examines data from Ruwund, a language with surface tone patterns often the reverse of those reconstructed for ProtoBantu, and proposes that, whereas most contemporary Bantu languages are believed to have tonal systems based on an
Jay A. Nash
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Revisiting Basaa verbal derivation
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 Basaa, a Narrow Bantu language (A43) spoken in Cameroon in Central Africa holds a serious record of descriptive works in phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Makasso, Emmanuel-Moselly
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