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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 cíbìnjì cyà 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
Michel Onokoko Onyumbe +1 more
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PI-Effects in South Bantu: Consonant Changes Due to a Preceding Front Close Vowel
LanguagesAn important set of sound changes affected the South Bantu languages through the impact of front vowels on following consonants, most notably under the form of the class 5 nominal prefix *i-.
Jeffrey Wills
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, 2022 The focus of this chapter is the appearance of tense in Proto-Bantu (PB). Most Niger-Congo (NC) languages are aspect-prominent, having no tense contrasts, and the same is generally assumed for ancestral Proto-Niger-Congo. PB emerged from part of an eastern subgroup of NC to which we refer as Bantoid.
Derek Nurse, John R. Watters
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On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
, 2022 This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family.
Bostoen, Koen +3 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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An introduction to Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, 2022 This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of the African linguistic family commonly known as Bantu. It is about how to retrieve the phonology, the morphology and the syntax the earliest Bantu speakers used to communicate with each other. In §1, I explain how this book came about. In §2, I offer a
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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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